"We cannot wage a perpetual campaign where the only goal is to see who can get the most embarrassing headlines about the other side.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

That would that would give rise to a perpetual motion machine, breaking of the second law. It can't happen.

否则就会使,得永动机出现，打破第二定律那是不可能的。

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The Israelites certainly hoped to secure the perpetual aid and blessing and protection of a well-disposed deity.

以色列人当然也想从神灵那里,得到永恒的祝福和保护。

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forces and a sense that policy is not in "perpetual drift."

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Metonymy is the delay or perpetual, as we gathered also from Derrida, differance of signification.

转喻具有那种延期和永恒的特质，这也是我们从法国人，德里达那本《书写与差异》的书中看出来的。

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Senator Kennedy planned many aspects of the funeral, and chose to hold it at "Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica", an inner-city church known for its outreach to the poor.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

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"How it is impacting Pakistan and especially in the areas of drug trafficking, in the areas of corruption that exist in Afghanistan which have given power to a lot of warlords which make Afghanistan in a state of perpetual instability."

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

In a famous passage from chapter 11 he posits, as he puts it, "a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire " of power after power that ceaseth only in death."

在第十一章的著名段落里，他说，“全人类共有的普遍倾向是,得其一思其二，死而后已,永无休止的权势欲“

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Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.

古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。

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And that's a perpetual conflict.

这是永远存在的冲突。

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And it is only the creation of the sovereign for Hobbes, endowed or possessed with absolute power, that is sufficient to put an end to the condition of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety and unrest that is the case of the natural condition.

对霍布斯而言,只有给君主，赋予绝对的权力，人们才足以结束,对这漫长的未知的恐惧，和对不安生活状态的疑虑,这才是现有条件下我们该做的。

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