But the campaign has in effect been running for months: regardless of the official fripperies, Britain's political parties have been in election mode since Christmas at least.

但实际上选战已于数月前开始：若不计官方浮夸虚饰的表态，英国各政党至少从去年圣诞节起即进入选举状态。

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The carnival life in Mikhail Bakhtin's view is the other life mode paralleling to the official one, which is of complete equality and freedom, freeing from the authority, regulations and rules.

巴赫金认为狂欢节生活是在官方世界的彼岸找到的另一种生活方式。

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The Europeans also broke from the group's normal mode by issuing a dissenting memorandum on ARF's official condemnation of nuclear testing.

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