Divided by a wide gap in income, women agree on little, let alone on public policies powerful enough to change existing social norms.

由于在收入上被拉开，女性们很少会同意通过强有力的政策去改变现存的社会习惯。

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It's never easy to make a dramatic lifestyle change, let alone explain that choice to those around you.

想要戏剧性地改变你的生活方式永远不会容易，更别说向你周围的人解释你的选择了。

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Searching ships and bouncing a few cheques is not about to get Iran to change its behaviour, let alone to open its nuclear programme to inspection.

搜查船只和拒付一些支票都不会令伊朗变得规规矩矩，更别说让外界检查其核计划。

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Mr Clegg is a free-market liberal who would fit happily into the liberal traditions of Dutch politics: whereas the left of his party still looks to the state to deliver improvements, Mr Clegg is among those who suspect that a top-down state is a wasteful provider of services, let alone social change.

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Yet Turkey has enough trouble coping with the PKK, let alone getting embroiled in regime change.

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Valcke explained that in addition to the IOC's opposition, Fifa had been worried about running out of time to decide on the change, let alone implement it, before the Olympic qualifying process begins.

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