He is a former cabinet official who has also done well-received academic research on many of today's pressing topics.

他曾经担任过内阁高官，并且对当下许多极其紧迫的议题做过大量深受欢迎的学术研究。

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Your former boyfriends are pressing you doorbell.

你的前男友在家门前按门铃。

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This chair is created by heating and pressing a seat-shaped former into a ball of polypropylene rope.

这张椅子是将尼龙绳卷成一个球状，然后用一个具有坐垫形状的模具加热后压制而成的。

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Dozens of former players are now pressing the NFL and the players union for more pension and disability money, saying their football injuries have crippled them.

NPR: Former NFL Players Unable to Pay Medical Bills

On Thursday, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith wrote to former Labour ministers - including his shadow, Liam Byrne, and former culture minister Margaret Hodge - pressing them to reveal what advice they received about A4e.

BBC: Ministers' anger over A4e welfare-to-work whistleblower

Meanwhile, the wealthy publisher Steve Forbes, former Vice-President Dan Quayle and a former Tennessee governor, Lamar Alexander, are pressing on with national campaigns that, officially undeclared, have already taken them through months of bad meals and repetitive speeches to the party faithful.

ECONOMIST: The hopefuls line up, hands held out