They voted for independence in a referendum.

他们在全民公决投票中赞成独立。

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He was afraid of losing his independence.

他担心丧失自己的独立。

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Chinese people cherish their independence and sovereignty.

中国人民珍视他们的独立和主权。

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That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

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.. What I'm going to do now-- let's start out with the case where-- now it's going to get a little bit more complicated if we drop the independence assumption.

我现在要做的是-,让我们从案例开始-,接下来的情况会比刚才的复杂一点,因为我们去掉了“相互独立“这一前提假设。

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The question is, why does Socrates exhibit such proud defiance and independence of the laws in the Apology, and such total, even kind of mouse-like, acquiescence to the laws in the Crito?

问题是，为何苏格拉底一方面展现了自豪的反抗,及独立于法律之外如同《自辩篇》所载，但这种绝对性，却化为鼠辈般，默认了全部的法律，一如《克里托篇》所载？

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These people lose their independence--the ability to wash themselves, to eat, and even walk.

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These people lose their independence -- the ability to wash themselves, to eat, even walk.

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But the army insists that it will go ahead with its independence-day parade down Reforma.

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