They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished.

两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

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For blacks to compromise means they risk being called Uncle Toms by their co-workers.

那些妥协的黑人面临被他们的同事叫做“汤姆大叔”的风险。

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Being back with their family should provide emotional stability for the children.

回到家人身边会使儿童的情绪稳定下来。

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They are being honored for their work in the nineteen eighties about the health of cells and the aging process.

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In fact, during this whole period playwrights were writing prologues to their plays abusing each other for being obscure that is to say, abusing each other for requiring interpretation.

事实上，当时,剧作家给别人的剧作写序言时,经常互相指责说对方的作品晦涩难懂,换言之，指责说对方的作品需要解读。

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What was happening was, these banks were not being watched carefully enough; their capital requirements were not enough for the kind of assets they were investing.

当初是因为,对这些银行监管不力,它们的资本水平没有达到,投资这类资产的要求

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Sales blames marketing for their coworkers being let go.

FORBES: Sales and Marketing Alignment Begins with the Customer

The New-England Primer's first edition antedated by less than a half-dozen years the publication in Britain of John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), a wide-ranging essay on child-rearing practices that highlighted children's capacity for reason and their susceptibility to being molded for life through judicious exposure to books and other influences suited to their capacity.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Minders of Make-Believe'

Heightened scrutiny by the FAA may not do much for their business for the time being, but in the long run, some analysts say, it's better for the FAA to get its policy straight on small, start-up airlines.

CNN: Cheap airline woes weigh on travelers