In private, Tories gloat that the process may take perhaps 20 seats off Labour and all in the name of fairness.

私下里，托利党幸灾乐祸地认为，这一过程可能会让工党失去20个席位，而且都是以公平的名义。

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In Chinese families, people won't start dinner until the elders take their seats.

中国家庭中，在长辈就座后，人们才可以开始吃饭。

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Take your seats please. The meeting is going to begin.

坐好吧，要开会了。

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First,they refused to let many of the recently elected southern congressmen take their seats when Congress opened.

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As you're settling into your seats, why don't we take 10 more seconds on the clicker question here.

你们现在都坐在座位上了，为什么不用10多秒的时间,来做这道选择题呢？好的。

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"In the House of Representatives, it is really a question of whether Obama's Democrats are going to lose 15 seats or 25 seats or the 40 seats necessary for the Republicans to take over."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Sinn Fein, however, has refused to take the two seats it is entitled to, saying the reforms do not go far enough to satisfy the concerns of republicans.

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They take up the seats on January 1st.

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Last of all to arrive before the boys had to take their seats inside the arena to watch the show was Beckham, one of the biggest stars in the world.

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