Sometimes they make trouble, but sometimes they can help us.

有时他们会制造麻烦，但有时他们可以帮助我们。

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"They just said, get up there and make some trouble, " said the serpent, whose name was Crawly, although he was thinking of changing it now.

“他们只是说，上去找点麻烦。" 蛇说道，这条蛇名叫 Crawly，不过他现在琢磨着改个名字。

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They make threats but back down at the first sniff of trouble.

他们起先气势汹汹，但一看情形不妙立刻软了下来。

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I'm not sayin' they'll trouble themselves much to make me welcome, but I got nowhere else to go.

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The Little Magazine was written by, addressed to, new young writers and artists, and they were determined to make trouble.

而小杂志则是由年轻的作者和艺术家所编写，也是为了向这些群体致敬，它的存在就是为了惹火上身。

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It did it through banks; they gave the money to banks to make loans to people who were in trouble.

贷款还是通过银行发放,他们把钱给银行,然后由银行向有困难的人放贷

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There are some people, Mrs Thatcher conceded, whom it was better to bring into the cabinet because they would make even more trouble on the outside.

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If conquered peoples paid tribute and did not make trouble, they were largely left alone.

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Some people who staged a brief protest after his conviction were rounded up and detained ten days later, possibly to make sure they caused no trouble at the religious festival.

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