The studio could punish its players by keeping them out of work, and otherwise controlling their lives.

电影公司可以通过让演员无角色可演或其他途径控制他们的生活，以惩罚他们。

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She is so busy keeping them alive.

她忙着让它们活下去。

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The more things you own, the more time you will spend keeping them in order.

你拥有的东西越多，就会花更多的时间来保持它们井然有序。

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Questions have been raised about his handling of sex abuse cases and whether he had a role in keeping them quiet.

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And that right now we can no longer afford to incarcerate, see, more than two million people, and take them not only out of workforce, but keeping them away from information of knowledge of literacy.

现在，我们已没有能力,去限制两亿人口，让他们，脱离劳动力，让他们脱离信息,知识或文化素养。

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By taking cells from the skin, for example, or cells from your blood or cells from the bone marrow and keeping them alive in culture, we've been able to study how human cells work and learn a lot about the functioning of human organism.

举例来说,通过从人的皮肤,骨髓,或者血液中提取细胞,并在培养基中培养,就能研究人类细胞是如何工作的,并在一定程度上了解人类机体的功能

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Thus government-run schools face growing competition from independent and parochial schools, keeping them on their toes.

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HUNTER-GAULT: And keeping them in school is the biggest challenge facing countries like Malawi.

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That is true, but the government is better at making promises than at keeping them.

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