Obviously, if imperfect people lived there it wouldn't be perfect.

很明显，要是不完美的人住在那里，那里就不完美了。

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Australia's plans for cutting carbon emissions are welcome, if imperfect. Britain's are fundamentally flawed.

澳大利亚的减排计划虽称不上是最完美的，但颇受欢迎。而英国的计划却漏洞百出。

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If imperfect materials could trap light, Lodahl thought, then physicists could couple light and matter with much less frustration.

如果有瑕疵的材料能捕获光，Lodahl想，那么物理学家们就可以更容易地使光和物质发生耦合。

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So the pieces we need are not only an image of Ruth, even if an imperfect image of Ruth, we also need some prior acquaintance with Ruth.

所以我们不只需要露丝的照片,甚至不能是一张不像露丝的照片,我们必须之前就熟知她才行

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If you have imperfect competition, it's somewhere between perfect competition and no competition.

如果你们想得到不完全竞争的局面,它就在完全竞争和垄断之间

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And Turkey's vibrant, if imperfect, democracy has trumped the mullahs, at least for now.

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Gun sales reached at least a 14-year high last month, according to a widely used, if imperfect, measure.

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BMI, the ratio of weight in kilograms to the square of height in metres, is a common, if imperfect, gauge of whether someone is over- or underweight.

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