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An optimistic view would be to believe that the aftermaths of the Mumbai attacks would lead to a transformation in the thinking of the people where one would be compelled to pursue the protests resulting in an affirmative action for the welfare of the society, thus I wait and watch the end of this rising or rather hope that this upstart continues...

一种乐观的看法是认为后遗症孟买的袭击将导致变革的思想，一个人在那里将被迫继续抗议导致扶持行动的福利社会，因此，我等待观看本月底或上升，而希望这种暴发户继续。。。

Most of the listed companies are transformed from state-owned enterprises that lead to lots of adverse aftermaths such as listed company's mother company, or rather, majority shareholder's company has a lot of bad assets and heavy burden to provide social welfare for its staffs.

其控股股东母体资产的效益较差，社会负担很重，控股股东需要补充大量现金流进行生存，这样就会导致控股股东可能会利用其控股地位，采用隧道挖掘等方式损害中小股东利益。

Or rather, since it wont be in a land-fill with all the other cellphones, I USE it.

或者说，因为它不会在一个土地填充与所有其他手机，我使用它。

The last Time of these two had well near been fatal to me; for the Sea having hurried me along as before, landed me, or rather dash'd me against a Piece of a Rock, and that with such Force, as it left me senseless, and indeed helpless, as to my own Deliverance; for the Blow taking my Side and Breast, beat the Breath as it were quite out of my Body; and had it returned again immediately, I must have been strangled in the Water; but I recover'd a little before the return of the Waves, and seeing I should be cover'd again with the Water, I resolv'd to hold fast by a Piece of the Rock, and so to hold my Breath, if possible, till the Wave went back; now as the Waves were not so high as at first, being nearer Land, I held my Hold till the Wave abated, and then fetch'd another Run, which brought me so near the Shore, that the next Wave, tho' it went over me, yet did not so swallow me up as to carry me away, and the next run I took, I got to the main Land, where, to my great Comfort, I clamber'd up the Clifts of the Shore, and sat me dow upon the Grass, free from Danger, and quite out of the Reach of the Water.

这两次大浪的冲击，后一次几乎要了我的命，因为海浪把我向前推时，把我冲撞到一块岩石上，使我立即失去了知觉，动弹不得。原来这一撞，正好撞在我胸口上，使我几乎透不过起来。假如此时再来一个浪头，我必定憋死在水里了。好在第二个浪头打来之前我已苏醒，看到情势危急，自己必为海水吞没，就决心紧抱岩石，等海水一退，又往前狂奔一阵，跑近了海岸。后一个浪头赶来时，只从我头上盖了过去，已无力把我吞没或卷走了。我又继续向前跑，终于跑到岸边，攀上岸上的岩石，在草地上坐了下来。这时，我总算脱离了危险，海浪已不可能再袭击我了，心里感到无限的宽慰。

Or, rather, is the European contribution to Caribbean Creoles limited to their lexicon, a lexicon that is coupled with a grammar of the West-African 'type'?

或者说，欧洲人对加勒比海的克理奥尔语的贡献仅限于结合了西非&式&文法的辞汇？

The voyages of discovery to America, with which it is common to compare spaceflight, were entirely about dollars and cents (or, rather, guineas and doubloons).

人们普遍将美国发现之旅同太空飞行作比较，就在于他们完全都是美元堆出来的。

Investor's Business Daily would like you to believe that Obamacare would turn America into Britain - or, rather, a dystopian fantasy version of Britain.

投资者的商业日报是想要你相信奥巴马的福利方案将把美国变成英国--或者，有点儿，反面乌托邦的空想说法的英国。

Carter and Rabil acted as virtual, or rather digital, stenographers for the MSNBC public relations flacks, just like the flacks wanted them to.

Carter和Rabil事实就像MSNBC公关部门的数字速记员一样，做了MSNBC希望他们做的事情。

He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.

但在他着手进行这一调查的过程中，一种可怕的迷惑力，一种尽管依然平静、却是猛烈的必然性，却紧紧地将这老人攫在自己的掌握之中，而且在他未完成它的全部旨意之前。

You begin by noticing the pelvis, doing its characteristic pulsation, and you recognize how close you are to the world of John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever." Fairly soon, you take in the heels, or rather the action of the insteps that keeps rhythmically lifting the heels off the floor, and then, in various ways, you see the ripple of motion between feet and those very slender hips.

你首先感觉到骨盆那具有特点的震动，随后感到自己与约翰·特拉沃尔塔在&周末夜狂热&的世界中近距离接触，不久，你的脚跟也动起来了，或者说脚面跟着节拍不断地带动脚跟离开地面，然后，你会从各个方面看到脚和细臀之间的起伏波动。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。