Couples who used to make independent decisions now email, text, or call each other to discuss trivial decisions.

过去独自做决定的夫妻现在通过电子邮件、短信或者电话来讨论生活中那些琐碎的事情。

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So the system is not foolproof." "But overall,it is in our view, the better system than anywhere else in the world because it gives average citizens an opportunity to listen to the evidence and make independent judgments the government is not part of."

VOA: special.2009.08.31

You might have four independent sculptures in there, but they relate one to another; they make some sort of special sense one to another.

你有四个独立的雕塑,但他们却彼此联系,彼此间好像有某种特别的意义

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They demanded war to free Cuba and make it independent.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

That only reinforces the banks' unhealthy ties to the government and hampers their ability to make independent commercial decisions on lending.

ECONOMIST: China's economy

Group travel is preferred in a country where a bewildering variety of cuisines, dialects and cultures can make independent travel daunting.

ECONOMIST: Cars in China

"Right now, if you want to make an independent English-language film, this is the cheapest country you can make it in, " says Rick McCallum, the American producer of the next two Star Wars episodes, which are being shot in Sydney.

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