What parents do, in other words, is of deep concern to the state, for the obvious reason that caring for children is not only morally urgent but essential for the future of society.

换句话说，父母所做的事是国家所深切关注的，原因很明显，照顾孩子不仅在道德上是非常需要的而且对社会的未来至关重要。

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My overriding concern is to raise the standards of state education.

我最关心的是提高国民教育水平。

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Rice said the other concern she has for the United States is the state of education.

赖斯表示，她对美国的另一个忧虑是教育状况。

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Birds native to one state are of special concern to wildlife experts.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

That concern with the state of one's soul he tells the jury has lead him not only to impoverish himself but to turn himself away from the public business from the things that concern the city to the pursuit of private virtue.

这种对灵魂状态的关心,如同他告诉陪审团,已经导致他不只精疲力尽,而且还使他从公共事务,即城邦所关心的事务,转向探寻个人的美德。

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That is a cause of great concern here because Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has threatened to wipe the Jewish state "off the map."

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Justice Graves is currently a Fellow of the Mississippi State Bar, and has served on a variety of committees of the National Conference of State Trial Judges, working on issues of concern common to state judges.

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In the Australian state of Victoria, concern over the threat that turbines could pose to the rare orange-bellied parrot nearly put paid to a wind farm, the Bald Hills project, in 2006.

ECONOMIST: Wind energy and politics

The authorities in one country will have ordered state supervision out of concern for the welfare of a child and the convention seeks to prevent the family from slipping through the cracks by moving on.

BBC: Prof Peter McEleavy