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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A narrow victory barely gives him a mandate to govern, let alone force through any radical change.

一次勉强的胜利几乎让他得不到治国的权力，更不要说强制实施任何激进的变革了。

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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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