The government is not taking such criticism lying down.

政府不会心甘情愿地忍受这种批评。

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Such "trading down" proved true for much of the latest recession, when fast-food companies picked up customers who could no longer afford to eat at casual restaurants.

在最近的经济衰退中，快餐公司招揽了那些再也负担不起在休闲餐厅吃饭的顾客，这种“消费降级”在很大程度上被证明是正确的。

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In order to protect our environment, immediate actions should be taken, such as stopping cutting down trees.

为了保护环境，我们应立即采取措施，例如停止砍伐树木。

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The Liberal Democrats, in this scenario, would agree not to vote down key government policies such as the budget.

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I think, in fact, a lot of women would say something like, I put my faith in God and I think I might bring down God's wrath if I did such a thing as to bet that my husband is going to die.

其实我觉得,不少女人会这样说,我是个教徒,我觉得如果我拿我丈夫的,性命去赌博,我会遭天谴的

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- There are a few equations that you need to memorize -- those are the very simple -- very, very simple equations, such as e equals h times nu -- hopefully you don't have to sit down and try to memorize that, hopefully we all know that already.

只有几个公式是需要记住的-,它们都非常简单，非常非常简单，比如，E，等于，h，乘以，ν,希望大家不需要再专门去背了，希望我们已经都记住了。

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Handling such down-to-earth concerns was one of the challenges when the Belgian creators got started.

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Such steps down the aisle may be harder to reverse than legal ones.

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Other Northern Ireland councils, such as Down district, fly their own flags.

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