In these days the pre-industrial city in America functioned as a complex and varied organizing element in American life, not as a simple, homogeneous, and static unit.

在这些日子里，美国未工业化的城市在美国人的生活中是一个复杂而多样的组织元素，而不是一个简单的、同质的、静态的单位。

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Getting a work permit in the UK is not always a simple proposition.

在英国获得工作许可证往往不是一件简单的事情。

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Not every judge, however, has the ability to explain the law in simple terms.

然而，并非每个法官都能用浅易的话来解释法律。

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However,it is not that simple. Randy Frost is a psychologist at Smith College in the American state of Massachusetts.

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Not on the basis of simple filling in ascending order, but a modified rate of filling as according to the Aufbau Principle.

并不是以简单的升值分布为基础，而是一个修改的填充方法,根据构造原理得到的填充法。

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Trotsky is not simple-minded in his literary taste, and he doesn't just sort of spontaneously insist that everybody has to write socialist realism.

列夫，托洛斯基的文学品味并不单一，他也不要求每人都必须,按以社会主义现实主义写作。

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Where this whole process gets tricky is not in simple scales of liking or who recalled the brand name.

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The reason that aid has worked in Botswana but not in Zambia is simple.

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Ideally, we would limit marginal rates, but this is not practical in a simple backstop like the AMaxT.

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