For most people who have trouble harnessing a hot temper, reacting like this is not what they want.

对多数不能驾驭急躁的脾气的人，这些反应并不是他们想要表现出来的。

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"We want to temper what we think is a bit of an over-reaction. There is still enough supply," he said.

“我们必须要理智，我们现在所想的东西是反应过敏了。我们拥有足够的粮食供应。”他说。

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He had a volcanic temper and I remember thinking what an unpleasant man he was, but I wanted to get home and didn't feel physically threatened.

他脾气火爆，我记得当时认为他不是个让人愉快的人，但是我想要回家而且也没感觉到身体有什么威胁。

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Between Slavophiles and westernizers, those are the people that look inside Russia to finding what they think to be eternal truth and those people who want to temper such looks with a look to the west.

俄国现在有斯拉夫派和西化派,一些人是希望基于俄国国情找到一种永恒真理,而另一些人则是希望,调和西方文化和俄国本土文化

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We remember what a dollar bought yesterday and temper that against what we guess it might fetch tomorrow.

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It has been a long time since Republicans showed a fighting temper of this kind, unyielding in its contempt for what the choice of a Hagel represents about core values like the national defense, our stance regarding the most dangerous of our enemies in the world.

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