Crist was forced to abandon his quest for the Republican Senate nomination because he was badly trailing former state legislator Marco Rubio in the primary race.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Those who embark on the quest for knowledge of the best regime may not return the same people that they were before.

那些开始追寻最优政体知识的人,可能最后,都完全地变了一个人。

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It's just historicizing otherness in a way that somehow or another satisfies my quest for information.

只是给相异性赋予历史意义,它满足了我对知识的渴求。

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He says the U.S.should be focusing on Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

It's the story of Aengus' longing and quest for union with a fairy girl whom he desires.

是安古斯渴望，寻求,和一个仙女结合的故事。

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However,they are not giving up their quest for justice.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

This class is what I think education is all about, which is that the quest for information and transformation must begin with the question.

本课程就是我认为的教育的宗旨，也就是对信息和转变的探索，必须由一个问题开始。

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The latest audio recording, attributed to Bin Laden, again attempts to justify al-Qaeda's September 11,2001, terror attack on the United States as being part of the group's quest for the liberation of Palestine.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The philosopher seeks to judge those beliefs in the light of true standards in the light of what is always and everywhere true as a quest for knowledge.

哲学家追寻的是以真正的标准,来评判那些信念,鉴于追寻知识,无论在何时何地皆真的标准。

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which reviews the search for alien life and suggests ways to broaden the quest.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.

稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固

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He's obsessed with grief over Enkidu, and he's obsessed with the whole issue of mortality. He begins a quest for immortality, and that takes up most of the rest of the epic.

他无法从Enkidu之死的悲痛中挣脱出来,他开始了对死亡这个命题的追寻，这部书余下的部分，都是关于这点的描写。

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The ancients had a beautiful word or at least the Greeks had a beautiful word for this quest for this desire for knowledge of the best regime.

古人有一个美丽的字眼,至少希腊文有这么一个美丽的字眼,送给寻道者，追寻最优政体知识的欲望。

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His in other words seems to be a highly personal in many ways highly individual quest for self perfection and not a doctrine about the value of freedom of speech in general.

换言之，他崇高的个人,从许多层面来看，是他崇高的个人,追求本身完美，而非关一般,言论自由价值的学说。

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And in this quest for what is best, positive psychology does not rely on wishful thinking, self-deception,or hand waving; instead,it tries to adapt what is best in the scientific method to the unique problems that human behavior presents " in all its complexity."

在追求理想状态时，积极心理学不会盲目主观，或自欺欺人;,相反，它尝试用最科学的方法来探究,极其复杂的人类行为所表现出来的,特殊问题“

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