Many people feel cheated by the government's refusal to hold a referendum.

由于政府拒绝举行公民投票表决，许多人都觉得上当受骗。

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She says the boat would be shaped like a capsule, powered by a small nuclear engine, and though there would be no sail, it would have a mast to hold a camera.

她说船将被制成胶囊形，由一个小型核动力引擎驱动，尽管不会有帆，但船上会有一个固定照相机的桅杆。

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In contrast, the roots of grasses and other small plants may help to hold loose soil fragments together, thereby helping to prevent erosion by the wind.

相反，草和其他小植物的根可能有助于把松散的土壤碎片固定在一起，从而助于防止风的侵蚀。

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Failure to hold the vote by the end of January, a deadline set by the constitution, threatened the creation of a political void.

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Because I could've built that in, it says if you change the value of this thing, by the way you need to change recompute those other values in order to make this hold up.

我想要大家通过定义好的方法，来改变实例的值了,因为我可以把这个功能，内置到方法里面去,它的意思就是如果,你改变一个值。

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So in Joshua 23:7-8: ; "Do not utter the names of their gods or swear by them; do not serve them or bow down to them, but hold fast to the Lord your God as you have done this day."

在《约书亚书》23章7到8节中：,他们的神，你们不可提他的名，不可指着他起誓;,也不可事奉，叩拜，只要照着你们到今日所行的，专靠耶和华你们的神“

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Do you, Bridey, take this man by proxy to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold by the laws of God and of this state?

NEWYORKER: The Proxy Marriage

His bent for scientific proof led him to accumulate three decades of small trials proving his therapy worked--and that it could hold its own even against the antidepressants that began to take hold by the late 1980s.

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The court heard that Aaron died of blunt force injuries to his head after Mr Lloyd was seen to hold him by the ankles and to spin him in circles as the toddler screamed and cried.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South West Wales | Baby boy died 'with 50 injuries'