As a general rule, all muscular effort is enhanced by breathing in as the effort is made.

一般规律是，肌肉都通过用力吸气而增强力量。

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Since all the processing plants are in urban areas, removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government's effort to reduce urban unemployment over the next five years.

由于所有的加工厂都在城市地区，取消关税将严重阻碍政府在未来五年内降低城市失业率的努力。

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As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all three countries.

作为欧盟资助的项目，此项针对盐分耐受稻米品种的研究正在这三个国家展开。

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Fan says the Aceh relief effort is motivated in part by gratitude for all the help Aceh received after the tsunami.

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We just take it for granted that what we're reading is completely within our own horizon and we don't make any effort at all to understand that which is fundamentally or at least in some ways different.

我们想当然地认为,我们读的东西都在自己的视域之中,并不必花费什么精力,去理解那些基本上不同或有些不同的东西。

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That leads all of us to put in too little effort.

这会导致大家都减少付出

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In other words, does it make sense to put in all this effort?

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They have flooded the airwaves with ads, and held hundreds of vigils and rallies and demonstrations, all in an effort to change the votes of about 15 republican House members.

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He employed scouts to follow potential clients, bribe their butlers and sort through their bins, all in an effort to collect any scrap that might prove useful to a sale.

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