Few things are so permanent in our lives, and I became very serious about this art.

毕竟在我们生命中永恒的东西是很少的，因此我变得很认真地对待刺青这门艺术。

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The old joke that there is nothing so permanent as a temporary migrant has more than a grain of truth in it.

有一个老笑话说“没有什么比这些临时工人更永久的了”，现在这已经不止是一个笑话了。

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He has stayed with us so long he seems to have become a permanent fixture.

他在我们这里待了很久，好像成了我们的固定成员。

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Zilpah Grant and Mary Lyon urged that Ipswich be provided buildings so that the school might become permanent.

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So one thing you will quickly note is that there are no permanent answers in a study of political philosophy.

有一件你们会马上注意到的事,就是没有永恒的答案,可用以研究政治哲学。

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So that really outweighs the fact of not having a permanent place to stay, yeah.

这些比没有固定的地方呆着要更重要。

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Indeed, it is so permanent that it can sometimes be passed down the generations, leading to a lot of excitable talk about the inheritance of acquired characteristics normally regarded as a Darwinian no-no.

ECONOMIST: Genomics has not yet delivered the drugs, but it will

So a permanent shift toward smaller cars would devastate industry profits.

ECONOMIST: The car industry

The best way to do so is through permanent rate reductions, not temporary rebates.

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