They have lost not only their jobs, but their homes, their self-respect and even their reason for living.

他们不仅失去了工作，还失去了家园、自尊心，甚至活下去的理由。

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Their reason is that if there is no road, their bumper crop will just rot in the field.

他们的理由是，如果没有路，丰收的作物将只会烂在田里。

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All of them were black and white images of a runner, with a quote that expressed their reason for running.

他们所有人都是白人和黑人的跑步者的形象，有一句引语阐述了他们跑步原因的引述。

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That's their reason for being, for the most part.

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I think that might be the reason- no one knows what all their reasons were.

我认为也许这就是原因-,没有人知道他们所有的原因是什么。

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Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

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Only 4% of people mentioned privacy and security concerns as their reason for taking a breather.

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So far, all we know is what the school maintains is their reason for suspending the teacher.

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He found that very few cited a lack of work in France as their reason for coming.

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