If such a view were to prevail, Singapore would eventually become a monolingual society and the bilingual policy would exist only in name.

如果让这种主张占主导，到头来，新加坡必成为单语社会，双语政策名存实亡。

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You should, and could have preserved your city walls and all those city gates, which now exist only in name.

你们应该并能够保留你们的城墙和全部城门，而这些城墙城门现在只是有名无实。

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GI status means that only pepper actually grown in Kampot can use that name.

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The Revolution has essentially become a revolution in name only.

这次革命本质上就是一个名号而已。

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At the Chicago White Sox U.S.Cellular Field on Chicago's South Side, the 30-year-old pitcher retired all 27 batters from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays without allowing anyone to reach first base, pitching a perfect game and putting his name in a record book occupied by only 17 others in Major League history.

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"It is a merger only in name as they are not combining large elements of their cost bases, " said one London-based analyst.

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In deference to the modesty of his wife-to-be, Hunter was sparing with the detail but confirmed that it differed from Plan B only in name.

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The Chelsea Flower Show, that annual London touchstone of garden trends, has turned up its nose at gnomes for years, relenting only in the name of heritage to allow the exhibition in 1993 of Sir Charles Isham's original German figure.

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