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They use death and intimidation, rather than electoral or accountable legitimacy, to make their point, to perpetuate their incumbency, and to eliminate their opponents.

他们用屠杀和胁迫，而不是选举或是可靠的法律基础，来说服别人赞同自己的观点，推行他们的统治，及排除异党。

That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God -- when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain rather than pleasure -- instead of an aid, become an incumbrance （=encumbrance）妨碍、阻碍、阻碍物、累赘 and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them.

上天赐给我们躯壳，让我们享受生活的乐趣，帮助我们求得知识，让我们为人类造福，这都是上帝对我们的大恩大德。当我们的躯体无法达到这些目的，不能给我们快乐，反而给我们痛苦，非但无法帮助我们，反而成为了我们的累赘时，当它们完成不了上帝当初交托给它们的那些使命时，上天准备了一个办法，让我们摆脱它们；这同样也是上帝的恩德。

Use two or more spaces rather than tabs for long lines of code to provide indention.

为长行的代码使用两个或者多个空格而不是跳格设定，来设置缩排。

It will probably never be known whether you cracked a joke or indiscreetly emitted a rather rude noise.

无论你是开了个玩笑，还是轻率地放了个响屁，也许都不会被人知道。

He wished to express his feelings about sexuality directly, rather than alluding to the subject as so many artists had done previously, artists such as Manet or Ingres.

使他的心智程序看得见他愿直接地表达关于性别的他感觉，并非暗示到主题和艺术家一样多的先前已经做，艺术家，像是 Manet 或 Ingres 。

The tastes and preferences of sports consumers are based on society and are dynamic rather than inherence or fixed.

健康消费者的口味和偏好既不是内在的，也不是固定不变的，而是被社会构筑的，是动态的，且在这种动态中所追求的不是口味众一化而是区别分化。

This exception does not apply to violations that occurred in the past, rather it "applies only where there is an on-going violation of federal law, which can be cured by declaratory or injunctive relief."

这一例外情形并不适用于发生于过去的违反行为，而适用于对联邦法律的持续的违反，联邦法律可以通过法规的说明或禁令解除加以修正。

In a years long searching effort of reflection the promising insight surfaced, that it is not a question of chosing this or that paradigm, but rather to consider the two paradigms as complementary approaches to reality as such, known by the human mind due to its inner capacity for insight, and by divine revelation accepted in faith.

在多年以来尽力的搜寻与洞悉，这不是选择这个或那个典范的问题，而是思考将两种典范相互补充到接近认识真实的实在界；此认识有两种来源，即：人类心智中的洞悉内在的能力，以及在信仰中接受神性启示的光照。

What a Russian or a European commissar is like, I have no idea; he may be as frightening a personage as everyone says, but Commissar Po, whom I got to know rather well during my stay in Yehtao was a pink-cheeked young man in his late thirties, with a very insouciant manner and an ever-ready smile.

一个俄国或者欧洲的政治委员是怎样一副尊容，我不得而知，也许确如人们描述的那样，是一类可怕的人物。但藩一波却是一位面颊红润，态度和蔼，三十几岁的青年，总是面带笑容，头脑十分冷静。

The strategies that Japan have adopted to advance toward a "Ordinary Power," such as US-Japan alliance, the perseverance of sovereignty, and the historical glory , are all precisely underlined by the core value of "the British Model." However, Japan does not necessarily push ahead the genuine peace, nor does she establish a positive role in East Asian security or achieve a meaningful success. Rather, she provokes much tension and misunderstanding among neighborhood, leading to its final insulation. This even affects the stability of the whole security structure in East Asia due to a rising China that has already generated a huge impact to the rapidly developed economy in the Great China area, and it is also a variable to the integration of East Asia.

日本在迈向「正常国家」化所采取的策略，如坚持与美国同盟、坚持主权、光荣历史等，正是循「英国模式」为核心的正常化，但日本并未因此真正促进国际和平、建立东亚的稳定秩序或成就政治大国的地位，反而引起邻近国家的紧张和误解，使日本陷入「孤立」的困境，甚至因此影响到东亚稳定的整体构架，因为崛起的中国已产生巨大的磁吸效应，为东亚的区域整合投下变数，日本在亚洲的领导优势也被受压力。

For a big chunk of credit-card losses; the number of filings (and thus charge-off rates) would be rising again, whether

年美国个人破产法的一个改动使得破产登记急速下降，而后引起了信用卡大规模的亏损。

Eph. 4:23 And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind

弗四23 而在你们心思的灵里得以更新