"Memorial should not dictate to us what we do in our own time, off the time clock."

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

She explains that nature, of course, wants us to / "live according to her sober laws / and holy dictate of spare Temperance."

她解释说，自然当然希望我们,“根绝她审慎的法律/,和神圣的有关节制的规定来生活“

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And there are various forces that play in the nucleus that will dictate when this will be stable and when it won't be.They isolated it, but it decays very quickly on the order of microseconds Lifetime on the order of microseconds.

在原子核中有很多种力,都会产生作用，当条件是稳定的,还有当它不是的时候，它们提取出来，但是它会以微秒的速度衰变,生命只有几微秒长。

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In what he called a departure from the Bush administration, Brennan said President Obama strongly believes that the United States can no longer let the "war on terror" dictate the nation's international agenda.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

They're the ones who would seek out high fat, high sugar diets because then they would get calories to seek out a variety of food, to eat in--eat above what immediate hunger might dictate.

这些人追求高脂高糖饮食,以获得足够能量,继而寻找更多种食物,饥饿驱使他们吃可以迅速果腹的食品

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So the point is, this balance between energy thatyou could think of as say bond energies in chemical reactions, and entropy that you can think of in terms of disorder, how many different possible combinations or configurations of something wrong, will dictate where the equilibrium lies.

关键在于，这种能量与熵之间的平衡,确定了平衡的条件，在化学中能量涉及键能，而熵和无序有关,即有多少可能的不同组合或者形位，二者的平衡会告诉我们平衡态是什么样子。

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Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

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