The hollow state of the colonizers not only reveals the dilemma of man, but also proves the deep crisis of modern civilization.

殖民者的空心状态不仅显示了人的生存困境，而且证明了西方文明的深层危机。

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But if there is ever going to be a time to reorganise the incentive structure now must be it. A threat to quit will be pretty hollow, given the state of investment banking.

但是如果有足够的时间来改变这个现在必要的刺激结构的话，威胁辞职就显得十分虚伪了。

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A threat to quit will be pretty hollow, given the state of investment banking.

按目前投资银行的处境，他们提出退出的威胁将很虚假的。

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Pledges by democratic states to respond promptly and forcefully to any violation of an arms control arrangement with a non-democratic state have often proven hollow when the time for action came.

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During his late teens he was the only member of his generation from Possum Hollow to go to college, attending the state teachers school in Murfreesboro, while also hauling livestock to market, raising a tobacco crop, and selling radios door-to-door for the furniture man in Carthage.

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