我们想避免去年那种极度不顺的旅行再度出现。

We wanted to avoid a rerun of last year's disastrous trip.

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他们想避免冒犯任何观众。

They want to avoid offending any of their audience.

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这个实验不一定证明了海豚知道自己不确定答案，只能证明海豚想避免消极后果罢了。

The experiment didn't necessarily indicate that the dolphin had knowledge of its own uncertainty, just that it wanted to avoid negative consequences.

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So the other guy is pricing below costs, the way which I avoid making losses is to set my price above his price.

所以另一家公司定价低于成本,我想要避免损失的方法是,将我的价格设定得比它高

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Whenever Johnson is being arrogant and mean about Paradise Lost, invariably he's on to something, and here he's telling us that Milton's gone too far. He's taken his allegory too far.

约翰逊任何时候都对《失乐园》报以傲慢且刻薄的态度，不可避免地，他是想表达着什么，在这里他想告诉我们,弥尔顿做得太过了，他在寓言上走得过远。

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What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.

它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的，它是依你的人性论而定，我想，它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。

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