He closed his office on the street tangential to the courthouse square and walked the two blocks to his house..

他关了与法院广场相切的那条街上的办公室门，走过了两条街回到家。

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The angle of alpha will then be tangential to this point.

α角将,与该点相切。

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As in earlier novels, some of the tenderest scenes are tangential to the main plotline.

和村上春树早期作品一样，小说中最动容的情节并不是小说的主线。

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However many of the holdings are tangential to home builders, rather than the home builders themselves, including A.O.

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Yet this is all tangential to where he does his real work: on the training ground and in his human relationships with his troops.

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It seemed tangential to me, it was about post-war changes.

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