The government has found that it's caught in a trap of its own making.

政府已经发现其陷入了自己造成的困境中。

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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies.

我们必须学会做自己最好的朋友，因为我们太容易掉入陷阱，成为自己最凶恶的敌人。

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Parents often fall into the trap of trying to do everything for their children.

家长经常一相情愿极力为子女操办一切。

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Lee soon discovered that it would not be easy to break out of the trap that Richmond and Petersburg had become.

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Well, you could understand why he might fall into the trap of thinking of himself as located in Chicago with all the visual inputs coming from Chicago.

这样你就能明白,他之所以认为自己身处芝加哥,是因为他的视觉信息来源于芝加哥

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I was just going to--I don't know if this is one of the things, you can eat it and you can metabolize it and trap the energy.

我想说,我也不知道说的对不对,可以食用,被代谢,并从中获取能量

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"One always falls into the trap of going into the straight-replacement mode, " he says.

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In recent years, the Republican Party has receded into a political-policy trap of its own making.

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And Labour's passion on Chile puts Mr Straw in a trap of his own.

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