It was uncommon to find means of transport that were more efficient than walking but less technologically advanced than motor vehicles.

"很少能找到比步行更有效率但是在技术上不比机动车先进的交通工具。

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

于善良之中依然不乏邪恶手段。

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We strive to find means of survival everyday.

每一天我们都在拼命寻求生存下去的方式。

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That means poor people find it difficult to buy healthful food.

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You remember in the first lecture I said there's a difference between the history of criticism and theory of literature, one difference being that the history of criticism has a great deal to do with literary evaluation: that is to say, why do we care about literature and how can we find means of saying that it's good or not good?

你们还记得吗，第一节课我说过,文学评论历史和文学理论有一个重大区别，那就是文学评论的历史,很大程度上与文学评估有关：,意思就是我们为什么要关心文学,还有我们怎么能说一部作品是好还是坏？

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You have to find out what "pulls up" means in the same way that the adult reader of Pleasures of the Imagination has to find out what "plastic" means.

我们得找出“停下来“究竟是什么意思,正如读《想象的愉悦》的大人,需要找到“塑料“的意思。

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And that's when, instead of struggling to find some means of co-existence, we try to silence it or ignore it.

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When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

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Iran's leaders seem determined to acquire a nuclear capability that would enable them to make a bomb in short order and to find the means to deliver it.

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