This book is not merely an array of editorial hunches, but an empirical study of a wide range of common (and even a few uncommon) usage questions.

这本书不是简单的编辑直觉的堆砌，它是一次对一个广大范围内常见（甚至也包括一些不常见的）用法问题的实证研究。

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Project architects wanted to challenge the common perception of a standard footwear store as a merely functional and neutral retail space.

该项目的建筑师，目的在于，打破人们对标准鞋类商店的普遍看法，使鞋店不再是一个纯粹的功能性和中立的零售空间。

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A tinge of a tragic historical philosophy of determinism, a theme common in modernist fiction, can be perceived: man's every effort is futile, and any progress in society is merely an illusion.

该小说蒙着一层悲剧色彩，表现了一种宿命论的历史哲学观，一个在现代主义小说中常见的主题——人的一切努力都是徒劳，社会的进步只是一个虚幻。

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It is not enough merely to speak the same words, but in a sense, citizens must have certain common experiences, certain common memory and experience that shape a city and the people.

仅是说相同的话还不够，另一方面，公民还必需,要有特定的共同经历，特定的共同记忆,与形塑城市与人民的经历。

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In the case of passports, they will merely be designed to a vague common standard.

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Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.

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Professionalization of a teaching profession that merely focuses on getting better PISA test scores or more efficient teaching of a common core curriculum will do no better than what we have now, and probably worse.

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