I may have given the impression that this sort of faith is an easy out, a comforting escape, a way to avoid tension and ambiguity.

我可能给人的印象，这类信念是一个简单的，一个令人欣慰逃脱，一种避免紧张和歧义。

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He was decidedly less effusive about China, not surprisingly given the various areas of tension between them.

他对中国远没那么热情，考虑到两国间多个领域内的矛盾，这也不足为奇。

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An Angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story.

他在墙角里把肘弯和脚跟靠紧石块上的不平处，便能利用背部和腿弯的伸张力，妖魔似的升到四楼。

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In the case of Microsoft, set up in 1975, the surprising thing is that the union between the two men lasted as long as it did given the tension that already underlay their friendship.

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While the group normally focuses on making economic decisions, this meeting will be keenly watched given the current high tension.

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And the opening half was wracked with tension and short on quality, inevitably given the stakes.

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