Every time you shed a should, state a preference, and make a decision you are rewriting your own story.

每次放下一个应该，说出一个喜好，作出一个决定，你就在重写自己的故事。

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Most women are taken aback by this approach because most men they know immediately state a preference.

这种做法往往会让大多数女人不知所措，因为她们认为绝大多数男人会立刻说出他们的喜好。

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In many cases, IXRetail adopted a "Best Practice" guideline to state a preference for using a specific feature of XML or the XML Schema language for specified situations.

在许多情况下，IXRetail采用了“最佳实践”指导原则，声明在特定情况下，优先使用XML或者XML schema语言的特定特性。

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And in a social age, the consumer should be able to state a preference for how he or she is pitched.

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The Times also reported that the kinds of ads that state a preference for already-employed applicants reached from low-wage, fast-food jobs to higher-wage posts like business analysts.

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Earlier this month two grammar schools in Dorset announced that from 2010 they would admit state-school applicants in preference to private-school ones, even if the latter had better 11-plus results.

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