David: : we would need to see a sample of the item first before we could make a decision on ordering it.

大卫：我们得先看看产品的样品，之后才能决定下订单。

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To make matters worse, the tax authorities slapped on the group a colossal bill, ordering it to pay 1.42m yuan ($207,900).

更糟糕的是，税收部门向研究组征收了一笔巨额税款，要求其支付142万元人民币。

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An importer, for example, does not receive a shipment immediately after ordering it, and is often given a short period of commercial credit.

例如，一个进口商订购以后，不能马上收到货物，通常他会得到一小段时间的商业信用。

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But another entity, the U.N.-supervised Election Complaints Commission, is ordering a partial recount and says it is investigating hundreds of serious fraud allegations.

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The regime for him is not one branch of human activity among others it is the fundamental principle or ordering principle that makes all the others even possible.

对他而言,政体并非人类活动的一个分支,而是基本的原则,或说是指导原则,使所有其它学科化作可能,这就是为何。

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Is it a book about what we today might call moral psychology ? and the right ordering of the human soul, which is a prominent theme addressed in this work?

或是一本,我们在今日所谓道德心理学,及人类灵魂之正义规范的书，因这些重要的主题正是本作品所大量陈述？

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Having ignored two resolutions ordering it to stop enriching uranium, Iran now faces the prospect of a third.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear proliferation

The difference lies less in the nature of the intrusion than in the makeup of the authority ordering it.

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Twitter is contesting a US court order ordering it to hand over the message history of one of its users.

BBC: Twitter resists US court's demand for Occupy tweets