Even if your own efforts at humor fall short, you might be freeing the long kept humor in others.

即使你自己在提升幽默上的努力没有达到预期的效果，你也可能对别人表现出身上保存已久的幽默感。

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For those who are not born with a silver spoon in their mouth, they can only change their social status through their own efforts.

对于那些不是含着银汤匙出生的人来说，他们只能通过自己的努力改变自己的社会地位。

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But the Afghans often have their own way of doing things. And that sometimes conflicts with U.S.-led efforts to forge a larger, more independent Afghan security force.

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Republican Representative David Price asserted that passage would also complicate U.S.efforts for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and negatively impact Israel's own investigations: "Israel is a strong and resilient democracy,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

And as a consequence of its own autocracy, the battle against terrorism and the efforts to confront the local affiliates of al Qaeda have been undermined by a regime that is seen as remote and repressive."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Clearly, GSK believes that such transparency will not harm their own efforts for future medicine development.

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Belatedly the profession is making its own efforts to put its house in order.

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The Paper also calls on the Government of South Sudan to step up its own efforts.

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