In the unlikely event of aircraft having to make an emergency landing, you must adopt the brace position.

在极少发生的飞机紧急着陆时，你必须采用防撞击的姿势。

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So does having a clearly defined goal and a prescriptive method make it more likely that we will misunderstand the real goal and adopt the wrong method?

那么，是不是明确的目标和规范的方法反而会让我们迷失确实的目标并且采取错误的方法呢？

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To prevent anything like that happening again, Mr Fukui has insisted that the bank adopt a more forward-looking approach, instead of having to react hastily to news from the market.

为防止任何类似情况发生，俊彦先生坚持央行采取更加面向未来的手段，以此来代替对市场消息草率反应。

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"I think that by having people adopt a healthy lifestyle, both from a medical standpoint as well as nutritional and cognitive stimulation standpoint, that we can reduce the incidence of cognitive decline, which will be proof that these factors are, in fact,important."

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There was a famous case in the 1970s or '80s, there was a family called Trognon, and a trognon is a cigarette butt, and when they tried to adopt a baby, it would be called, let's say Jean-Philippe Trognon, they said,"oh,no, that baby would be damaged by having such a last name; you don't have the right to adopt this baby."

在上世纪七八十年代有一个出名的案例中,这家人姓特鲁侬,意思是香烟屁股,他们想要领养一个婴儿,取名为,简·菲利佩·特鲁侬,法国人说,不不,取这样一个名字有损于这个婴儿,你们不能领养这个孩子

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Full-fledged wedlock should be allowed, the committee pronounced in November, with gay couples who wanted to adopt having joint custody over children.

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The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) is advising ship-owners to adopt measure such as having look-outs or travelling at speeds which would allow them to outrun the pirates.

BBC: Q&A: Somali piracy

Having criticised it, the coalition decided to adopt it and on Wednesday are announcing they will significantly scale it up.

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