Liao Yuhua said business is up 40 per cent since the end of last year - not despite the global economic crisis, but because of it.

在上海时光整形外科医院，廖玉华（音）大夫说，自去年底以来，业务上升了40%——全球经济危机不仅没有影响到业务，反而对此有所帮助。

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But Lehman could not - despite what Mr. Paulson described as personal pleas to other firms to buy some of Lehman's toxic assets and efforts to persuade another bank to acquire Lehman.

但是雷曼已不具备这样的能力——尽管保尔森说，他曾亲自请求其他公司购买一部分雷曼的不良资产，并且努力劝说另一家银行收购雷曼。

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Despite their name, they are not whales.

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So, Peter the Great, despite his dramatic expansion of the Russian empire, does not get this outlet on the Black Sea.

所以,彼得大帝,虽然为俄帝国的扩张立下汗马功劳,仍旧没能夺取黑海的入海口

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They're not stories about pious people whose actions are always exemplary and whose lives should be models for our own, despite what Sunday School curricula will often turn them into.

不是讲那些应该拿来做榜样的,圣人的典范故事,只有主日学校会把他们讲成那样。

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Yet to a large degree the students succeeded--not despite the turmoil, but because of it.

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And he illustrates a profound truth, that we are great not despite our failings, but including them.

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That way we can finally make rugby a national game, which it's not despite what people think.

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