They justify villainy in the name of high ideals.

他们打着实现远大理想的幌子为他们的恶行开脱。

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We perched on a couple of high stools at the bar.

我们坐在酒吧的几个高脚凳上。

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He'd dropped out of high school at the age of 16.

他16岁时就从高中退学了。

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One of the more difficult walks is an eight kilometer hike that is not for anyone afraid of high places.

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They move from regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration by this natural flow down a concentration gradient.

从高浓度区域,向低浓度区域流动,顺浓度梯度流动

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and then officially, during the spring of my junior year of high school, so my third year of high school.

但后来正式决定来这里是在高三的那个春天。

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Partly because of high gas prices, consumers are taking a second look at hybrid cars.

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Between 1970 and 2008, the ecological footprint of high-income nations rose seven percent, the report said.

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There are a few feathers of high white cloud in an otherwise blue sky.

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