The loss of profit is not a loss in the true sense of word.

利润损失的，是不是一个损失，在真正意义上的词。

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It's not quite peace in the strictest sense of the word, rather the absence of war.

这个词就其最确切的意义而言不完全是和平，更像是没有战争。

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I am not referring to 'small' people in the literal sense of the word.

我指的不是字面意义上的“小”人。

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The men against whom Saint Peter is really spitting his venom are bad pastors in every sense of the word.

圣彼得这个表露出恶意的男人,是通常意义上的低劣的牧师们。

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It's a provisional ending. It's not a rhyme word, and so it doesn't constitute the end of a unit of sense as a rhyme word would in most heroic couplets.

它不是真的结尾，不是韵脚，因此它不像大部分英雄双韵体中的韵脚词一样,标志着一个意思表达的完结。

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That's not meant to be a bad word but suggests being influenced, one might say, in the sense of "open the window and influenza," by those signs that precede it.

这不是个不好的词，只是想要表达影响的意思，人们可能说将一个符号之前的符号称作是“,“打开了窗户，引发了流感“

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"It takes someone of his outsize personality and--I mean this in the best sense of the word--of his ego to pull all of it off as grandly and efficiently as he does, " says NBC's Tom Brokaw, a guest in June.

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We understand the political imperative, and these columns have favored liberal (in the 19th-century sense of that word) immigration policies since before the current crop of Republicans was born.

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He is, in the very best sense of the word, an old-fashioned actor who has no fear of the grand gesture.

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