Their desire for social drama is not—or not only—a way of distracting themselves from their schoolwork or of driving adults crazy.

他们对社交戏剧的渴望不是——或者不仅仅是——一种让他们从学业中分心或者让成年人发疯的方式。

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Their penchant for social drama is not—or not only—a way of distracting themselves from their schoolwork or of driving adults crazy.

他们对社会戏剧事件的渴望不是——或者不仅仅是——一种分散他们对家庭作业注意力的方式，或者一种把成年人逼疯的方式。

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He could not or would not say.

他不能也不愿说。

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It is not chaos or death -- it is form,union,plan -- it is eternal life -- it is Happiness.

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This is a distinction which is not meant sort of counter-intuitively to suggest that somehow or another, as opposed to what we usually think, writing precedes speech--not at all.

这个区别没有在某种程度上故意地，与我们的直觉相反,暗示，无论如何，与我们通常想的相反,我们通常认为书写是在讲话之前的，完全不是这样。

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That is to say, it is not self-evident, or it is not always intuitively obvious what our interests are.

即正义不是不言而喻，或总是直觉明显地能确定,我们的利益何在。

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Well, one news organization decided to ask the leadership offices of the Republicans on the Hill whether or not -- or just to give them an example of the small businesses that would be affected.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

In the case of the IAU definition, you have a definition which instead of having evolved through, you know, decades of discussion and use or not - or disuse - is more imposed upon everyone, and that's why there's more controversy today.

NPR: Astronomers Prepare to Fight Pluto Demotion

But somehow it's not perilous - or not so perilous - for the public-sector to take on greater liabilities to finance the private sector.

BBC: Government becomes banker to the private sector