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That would allow the loan to be classed as"current" rather than "delinquent".

这样起码他们可以把贷款归类为"还贷中"，而不是"拖欠中"。

But the controversy underscores the fact that fat stigma isn't about improving people's health, as doctors like Delos Cosgrove contend. If it were, the conversation would be about health rather than numbers on the scale and the B.M.I. chart.

但是，辩论强调了肥胖病不是关于增强人们健康，当象 Delos Cosgrove 这样的医生坚持认为，如果这样的话，抗辩将更多地关注健康，而不是身高体重的人数和BMI图表。

There was something almost touching in the manner and tone in which he spoke to her--half in deprecation, knowing that he could hardly expect to be the choice of a beautiful young girl, and praying rather that she would reject him, even though she broke his heart by doing so, than that she should accept his offer if she did not love him.

他对她说的话里，在态度和声调里自有某种几乎动人的地方——一半儿倒有求恕求免之意：他知道自己不能指望被一个美丽年轻的姑娘选中，如果她并不爱他，那就别勉强接受他的求婚，他宁可她拒绝他，哪怕这样做会使他心碎万分。

While it is hard to believe in this day and age that a senior business executive would see IT as a necessary evil rather than an enabler of competitive advantage, his derisive attitude towards your accomplishments suggests exactly that.

虽然现在很难相信一位高级企业管理人员会把IT视为不好却又不能少的部门，而不是一个可以增强企业竞争优势的部门，他对你的成就的嘲弄态度显示的却恰恰是这样。

In return, they would receive due respect and understanding, rather than discrimination and desertion.

作为报答，他们将会得到尊重和理解，而不是歧视和遗弃。

Rather, it would serve only to destabilize expectations and fuel more speculation, in my view.

相反，我认为这将只会破坏预期并助长投机气焰。

If the two secondary cases had been considered members of a cult rather than the individuals suffering from shared psychotic disorder, they may have been found ineligible for an insanity defense at the time of their actions because they would not have evidenced a diagnosable mental illness.

如果两个继发性病例已经考虑而不是从共享精神错乱的个人的一个邪教组织成员，他们可能已经发现，特别在他们的行动，因为当时精神错乱资格证明他们不会有一个诊断的精神病。

In Senate testimony before her confirmation, she said she would work to build up the U.S. diplomatic corps as part of an exercise of "smart power" by the United States that leads with diplomacy, rather than the use of military force.

克林顿在得到确认前在参议院发表证词时说，她会努力加强美国的外交团队，作为美国使用"智慧力量"的一部分，并以外交为主，而不是使用武力。

I would not use two accent lamps with shadows because that could start becoming rather distractive .

我不会使灯光阴影重叠，那样容易使人分散注意力。

Diu Diu actually cried out suddenly, told me while crying: You Yun, I would never join in this kind of race, too tired, I had never suffer so lot,… I was in silence, in fact, this intensity was very considerable to men, the rather that a lady?

丢丢居然哇的一声哭了出来，边哭边说：有云，我再也不玩这样的比赛了，太累了，我从来没有受过这样的苦……我也无语，的确，这样的强度队男人都是一种考验，何况是美女了？

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。