Young people should pay attention to the affairs of state.

青年应该关心国家大事。

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Our results should be a good approximation to the true state of affairs.

我们的结果应该和实际情况相当接近。

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Mrs. Taylor deplored the state of affairs caused by the evil person.

泰勒夫人谴责这恶人所造成的事态。

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Last week, Mr.Hawass announced plans to resign from his position as head of the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs.

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It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

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The Protestant Reformation, and especially the rising energies of Puritanism in the early seventeenth century, are beginning to do a lot to change this state of affairs.

新教宗教改革，尤其是活力不断上升的清教主义,在17世纪早期，为了改变这种状态开始做出许多努力。

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And the clearer it is that Mr Mbeki can handle the affairs of state, the easier that succession will be.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

The President recently crossed the hundred fundraiser threshold in the 2012 campaign, which is being used to beat up on him for focusing more on his reelection than on the affairs of state.

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This is the favoured solution of the establishment's dinosaurs octogenarian newspaper publishers and former prime ministers who think that they should be arranging the affairs of state and who constantly meddle in politics as kingmakers.

ECONOMIST: Japan's opposition in disarray