He had sought to obtain payment of a sum which he had claimed was owed to him.

他曾试图获得一笔他声称是欠他的钱。

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I could obtain with the snap of my fingers anything I chose.

只要打一下响指，我就可以得到我选中的任何东西。

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He lowballed the cost of the project in order to obtain federal funding.

他为了得到联邦资助而故意压低项目的成本价格。

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Judge Melvin Wright explains how the D.C.Superior Court handles this issue: "We instruct jurors that they cannot during the course of a trial use Google or Twitter or any other electronic device to obtain information.

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It is to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge because if human beings obtain knowledge, they will be like the gods,and that is unacceptable.

食用智慧树的果实,如果人类得到智慧,将与诸神无二,这当然是不能接受的

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Further down the line, for example, in the blastocyst I talked about before, we could obtain cells from this inner cell mass or this cluster of cells that becomes the embryo.

沿着这条线看,举个例子,就是我之前提到过的囊胚,我们可以取一些内细胞群的细胞,这种能成为胚胎的细胞群

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No, they need unions in order to exploit the political process to garner rewards for employees in excess of what they could obtain outside of government.

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Mr Webster did so as part of an attempt to fraudulently obtain hundreds of thousands of pounds in separate insurance payouts, it is alleged.

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It was a hollow victory for former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, who challenged the constitutionality of the law used to obtain one of his felony convictions.

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