这可能是对目前情况的一次改善。

This could be an advance on the present situation.

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我们对这种情况的看法一致。

We are together in the way we're looking at this situation.

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我无意深入调查这一情况的来龙去脉。

I had no intention of going into the whys and the wherefores of the situation.

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What place can it occupy in each type of discourse, what functions can it assume, and by obeying what rules?"

它可以在每种话语中占据什么样的位置，它在遵循什么原则的情况下可以有什么样的功能？“

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It will soften your speech so that you can pose the question without offending the other person.

它会很好地柔化你的言辞，这样你就可以在不冒犯其他人的情况下提出自己的问题。

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Now the reason that is true is because we live in a post-Christian culture, and both aspects of that term are important.

出现这种情况的原因是,我们生活在后基督教文化中，有两方面的意义。

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