先例的

Having prorogued Parliament last winter to dodge a confidence vote he seemed set to lose, Mr Harper has now established a precedent that many constitutionalists consider dangerous.

去年冬天，为了规避看起来他开始输掉的信任投票，哈珀关闭了国会，他开创了许多宪法学家们都认为危险的先例。

"A solitary precedent ... which has never been reexamined, cannot be conclusive".

&唯一的先例…从来没有重新审视过，不能起决定性的作用&。

The decision upends the court's precedent that corporations may not use their profits to support or oppose candidates, and it rejects a large portion of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act, which the justices declared constitutional just six years ago.

此项判决推翻了最高法院的先例，即公司不得运用其利润支持或反对候选人。该项判决还废止了《McCain-Feingold选战资金法》的多数内容，仅在6年前大-法官们还在宣布该法合宪。

Strong government policies have a proven track record, creating phenomeno results in pre-war Japan and Germany.

强有力的政府政策有先例可循：战前的德国日本。

But it is unlikely to be any more effective than previous gambits, bar perhaps the odd deal in developing markets.

然而就效果而言，中兴通讯的这步棋恐怕很难超过其先例--可能只有发展中国家的奇特交易除外。

Many claimed it could not be done, despite the examples of Korea, which managed the trick in the 15th century, and Vietnam which, like China, has a tonal language with many homonyms but switched successfully to an alphabetic system.

尽管有朝鲜和越南的先例，许多人还是要求不要改。前者在15世纪成功地应用了这种方法；后者的语言中尽管有许多同音字，也成功地转换成拼音文字。

Totally unbiblical; there's no precedent for that in Scripture.

这并不符合圣经的原则，而且在圣经中没有这样的先例。

A key feature of the new engine is the unique, parallel sequential turbocharger system, the first of its type to be fitted to a V-engine anywhere in the world.

这台3.0升引擎能取得如此骄人的性能指标关键在于它采用了平行连续涡轮增压器，这是全球首个在V型引擎中配备该类型涡轮增压器的先例。

But while he was in the Senate, the soldiers, in a state of mutiny, demanded ten thousand sesterces a man, on the precedent of those who had conducted Octavianus Augustus to Rome and had received such a great sum.

可当他正在元老院之时，士兵们却在叛乱，要求按照当年将屋大维·奥古斯都引入罗马的士兵们所得到的金额先例，赏给每人一大笔钱——10000塞斯特尔提乌斯*。

But while he was in the Senate, the soldiers, in a state of mutiny, demanded ten thousand sesterces a man, on the precedent of those who had conducted Octavianus Augustus to Rome and had received such a great sum.

可当他正在元老院之时，士兵们却在叛乱，要求按照当年将屋大维·奥古斯都引入罗马的士兵们所得到的金额先例，赐给每人一大笔钱——10000塞斯特尔提乌斯*。

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。