So that we don't have two Marines essentially standing over his wife while he was off.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

I mean they take up a teeny bit but essentially when we're thinking about the set up of the atom, we don't have to account for them as using up a lot of the mass we're discussing.

所以我们可以假设电子没有质量,它们占据了，非常小的一部分,所以当我们考虑,原子的构造的时候,不用考虑它们的质量。

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Priests, these are the bishops of the old system, have changed their name to presbyters, perhaps, and they look like revolutionaries, but they're manipulative, controlling actions haven't essentially changed at all.

牧师，这些是旧制度的主教，或许已经把名字变为长老，他们看起来像革命者，但其实他们的操纵，控制的行为并没有改变什么。

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Isn't that essentially agreeing with the Supreme Court decision that's calling it a tax?

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Representative DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (Democrat, Florida): There's far more that needs to be done beyond extending the deadline, but at the very least we need to make sure that seniors don't face what is essentially a Bush prescription drug tax for every day that they don't sign up after Monday.

NPR: Bush Hits Road to Urge Seniors Into New Drug Plan

They argue that the market hasn't worked as it essentially has become a means of avoiding real carbon cuts by paying someone else to do them.

BBC: Green energy on the back foot after carbon trading blow