Alas, I am loath to cheapen her existence and dignify the city's anti-cat stance by creating a dog-like defense for her.

哎，我讨厌用狗一般的姿态保护玛贝尔，这简直就是在贬低她的存在，助长这个城市讨伐猫咪的声音。

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But I have firsthand witnessed relationships in which phones are private property locked and guarded with military-like defense systems.

但我也亲眼见过一些处在恋爱关系中的人把手机当作私人财产，给手机上锁并像军事戒备那样对窥视者严加防范。

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But that doesn't mean that issues involving the preservation of life (or a way of life), like defense, should not be subjected to cool, hard economic analysis.

但是，这并不是说涉及到保存生命(或者生活方式)的问题，例如说防务，就不应该接受冷静、细致的经济分析。

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And that was the most important thing for him." John Wooden was praised for how he taught the basics of the game,like passing,defense and moving without the ball.

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And Milton's defense of controversy seems in a lot of ways continually to be slipping in to something like a defense of poetry, or certainly a defense of his own poetic practice.

弥尔顿对于论战的辩护似乎在某种程度上持续地,渐渐变为对诗歌的辩护，或是理所当然地变为对自己诗歌的尝试的辩护。

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I would suggest something like national defense, education, communications and information act.

我建议颁布相关的国防,教育，传播及信息法案，因此政府要提供一种方法。

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