It's hard to get a sympathetic hearing when your work, if successful, is clearly going to knock the blocks out from under civilization.

当你的工作是成功的，无疑将会清除文明社会中的障碍物时，要得到赞成的倾听是困难的。

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If Ukraine were kept out, it could easily fall back under the sway of a newly resurgent Russia; and the knock-on effects for other vulnerable places, such as Georgia and Moldova, could be serious.

如果乌克兰吃了闭门羹，它将很容易退回到从前，受制于新崛起的俄罗斯。由此在更多岌岌可危的地区引发连锁反应，譬如格鲁吉亚和摩尔多瓦，后果将十分严重。

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In something under half an hour there was a knock at the door.

过了半小时不到一些，听到一下叩门声。

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Hill was in support to take the knock-back and saunter under the posts to give Strange a simple conversion.

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Our enemies would be denied the geo-strategic leverage they currently enjoy, as indigenously produced energy sources derived from coal, biomass and garbage knock the pegs out from under the cartel's control of the commodity upon which our transportation sector heavily depends.

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Meanwhile the summit of UK tourism ministers in Glasgow chaired by Scottish tourism minister Alasdair Morrison is expected to discuss calls for Chancellor Gordon Brown to plough extra resources into hotel and catering firms under pressure from the knock-on effects of foot-and-mouth.

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