The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner.

众多因素所依赖的考试成绩只不过是某个匿名主考者的主观评价。

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There were people fighting each other in the pages of the press: aggressive, personal, vindictive, often nothing to do with architecture.

一些人在报刊中长篇大论地互相争吵：挑衅性的，私人性的，报复性的，多数与建筑八竿子也打不着。

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

我们往往会因为我们自己的虚荣心，而给弄迷了心窍。

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They seem like the hard rock maple trees often found in that area, nothing can make them move.

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They are often nothing of the sort, a mountain made out of a molehill by reporters desperate for a story.

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Aligning with a cause is often nothing more than selfish giving.

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But before a test well has been drilled, it is near-impossible to be sure whether the geological idiosyncrasies that excite oilmen will yield either oil or gas (or sometimes both, and often nothing).

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