He took the occasion to satisfy his desire for revenge.

他抓住这个时机满足他那复仇的愿望。

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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to mark the occasion.

数十万人走上了街头纪念这一时刻。

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They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是，在一种无形物质中的机遇，在其中他们能采纳，并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

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Among those who did show up to share the spotlight with Mr.Gadhafi were Brazil's President Lula de Silva, who took advantage of the occasion to denounce the coup in Honduras.

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They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

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So I thought, "You are not going to get away with that", and I called him in the debate an "ex-future prime minister" and took the occasion of the law case to describe him in those slightly unflattering terms.

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The emotional occasion took the limelight away from the day's feature race, which Gifford had won (when it was known as the Whitbread) in 1982 with Shady Deal.

BBC: Gifford calls it a day

Bauer says a past money-saving trend of having companies sponsor parts of weddings in trade for having their logos displayed "took some legitimacy" from the occasion and the trend didn't last long.

CNN: She bartered her way to a dream wedding