在我的学校里，不止是一两个爱讲闲话的人，算起来有三个，三个女孩子以说别人不好的话，当作自己一生的的职业，几乎每一个人都被他们说过。

At my school, it isn’t one gossiping meanie, or two gossiping meanies, but three-count’tem, three-girls who make it their life’s work to say unfriendly stuff about pretty much everybody!

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但即使如此，很多上海人仍然以说方言为荣，他们把自己的语言做为一种证明身份的密码来认清彼此，很多时候，在小商店里使用上海话会得到另眼相看从而保证不会吃瘪。

Even so, many proud Shanghainese use the lan-guage as a secret code to signal that they belong to the in crowd-and often to ensure fair deals in local shops.

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秘书长说现在必须以具体有效的行动来支持这个宣言。

The secretary general says the declaration must now be backed up by concrete and effective actions.

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So the distance of the gap needs to be between the outer limits of boredom and overstrain according to Iser.

因此，据伊瑟尔说，间隙的大小应该,以无聊与过劳作为外缘界限，处于两者之中。

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I said that Yeats looks on the modern with a sense of both horror and a fascination, a compulsion almost.

我说过叶芝看待现代是,以一种害怕和好奇的感觉，一种难以压抑的冲动。

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To state the obvious, Socrates introduces this analogy to help the brothers better understand what justice is for an individual soul.

说明白些就是，苏格拉底导入这项比拟,以协助兄弟档更了解,正义对个人灵魂的重要性。

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