Civilian aviation is being disrupted, not by the age-old desires for speed, romanticism and glamour, but by the pressing need to respond to a changing climate.

民用航空正受到干扰，不是因为长久以来的对速度、浪漫主义和魅力的渴望，而是因为迫切需要应对不断变化的气候。

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It links up with one of my old desires, an inversion of sorts: build dwellings that resemble office plateau, because the best flats are the ones that offer the most free space;

它与我怀抱已久的一个愿望联系起来，一个颠覆性的想法：建造一个反映办公空间稳定特性的住宅，因为最好的楼层能提供最大的自由空间；

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He says that no matter how old a body is, researchers must balance the benefits of their research against the potential rights and desires of the deceased individual.

他说，不管尸体多么的古老，研究人员都必须在自己的研究利益和逝者的权利、愿望之间进行权衡。

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If God replaced your soul with a new one destroyed the old one, gave the new one all the old memories, beliefs, desires, goals, and so forth, that person who was in class last week yesterday died.

如果上帝把你的灵魂换了,把旧的毁了，换上新的,换上所有记忆，信仰，追求，目标，还有别的，上星期上课的那个人,昨天就死了。

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The leading actors, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, barely put a foot wrong, although the story is crammed with wrongness and awkwardness of every kind the pair of them trying and failing to rekindle old desires, for instance, on the floor of a cheap motel, or the unforgettable sequence in which she dances, badly, to his tortured singing on a cold night.

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