"I think it is fair that in calling some of the warlords in her parliament 'dogs' probably wasn't a very popular thing to do.

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And it will, at least, be worth pausing periodically to ask ourselves, maybe Plato realized it wasn't a very good argument.

但至少,它值得我们偶尔停下来,琢磨一下,也许柏拉图也意识到这不是一个好论证

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It wasn't necessarily that he was very fond.

这其实并不一定是他非常热衷去干的事。

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The classic argument against electronic news was that it wasn't very portable -- you couldn't take it with you anywhere.

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"It wasn't very long ago that the average American child saw Africa as colorful flags and exotic names on a map, " Clinton said.

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Mr. RUSS KING: Ten years ago it wasn't very nice down here, but now it's lit up with all sorts of people coming and going.

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