The purpose of sex is to reduce excitation, to annul desire.

性的目的在于将刺激减少的普通欲望的程度。

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It should also reduce its desire or need to sell off spectrum when that is the real prize.

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Despite the desire to reduce the number of masthead editors, she had not done so.

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One issue everyone agreed upon was a "mutual desire to reduce our dependence on imported oil, " Bush said.

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