These terms are often used imprecisely and interchangeably.

这些术语的使用常常不够精确，而且常常交互使用。

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The word "placeman" is often used contemptuously.

“官吏”这个词在使用时常常带有轻蔑的含义。

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Bell peppers are often used in a salad.

沙拉中经常用到甜椒。

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Farm workers and others who said they often used pesticides had a forty-one percent greater risk of Parkinson's than other people.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Because of the sort of particular character of the bassoon sound, it's often used to play sort of funny, little low-note characters in the orchestra.

由于巴松管的声音有这种特点,它总是用来表现幽默,在管弦乐队中演奏比较低沉部分

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These professional criminals often used force to take what they wanted -- cows,horses or money.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Vendors should preload software, eliminate any confusing DOS-based applications, and make often-used features easier to access, Whalley says.

CNN: Technology - Intel: Make PCs simpler

Another often-used argument was that what we were proposing would not stop all criminals from securing or using firearms, and therefore it was not something worth doing.

CNN: In gun control debate, logic goes out the window

It is surrounded by corrugated iron fences, its sprawling complex - often used by non-Ahmadi neighbours on Sundays for badminton or football - closed off to everyone.

BBC: The struggle of religious minorities in Indonesia