For many, the essence of French living is to be found in the rural heartlands.

对许多人来说，法国生活方式的精髓要到心脏地带的乡村去寻找。

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Though complicated in detail, local taxes are in essence simple.

虽然细节复杂，地方税本质上是简单的。

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Speed was of the essence in a project of this type.

速度在一个这种类型的项目中至关重要。

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In essence, this collapse in stock prices -the one-day collapse in stock prices -I think in the U.S. The price was, depending on which index you were looking at, were down 21-22% in a single day.

实际上,这次股价暴跌,股价一天内的跌幅,当然在美国国内,要看你参考的是哪种股指,但基本上一天之内暴跌21-22%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And if paying tax is part of CSR, then the public sector is being characterised - in essence - as a charitable good cause.

BBC: The going rate for Goldman

If it is a concept that is unlikely to ever acquire Total Football's sexy cache, Raymond Verheijen believes periodisation - in essence a less is more approach to training - is important in allowing clubs to protect their key asset - players.

BBC: Total fitness from the land of Total Football

They could be used to make cheap radio-frequency identity tags in essence, printable bar-codes that transmit an identifying code in response to a pulsed radio signal.

ECONOMIST: Just press print