World leaders have already tried to temper expectations, warning that the current crisis did not come about overnight and will not be resolved in such short order either.

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Her temper overwrought me, ] And I edged to shun her view For I felt assured she thought me One who should drown him too.

她的性情，诗人接着说，让我紧张烦恼，我慢慢的避开她的观点，离开月光,因为我断言，她认为我,应该也会溺死他。

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So initially the ponderous shield is of an "ethereal temper," we are told.

最初我们被告知“,那个沉重的盾牌是坚厚而庞大的。

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But the fact that Peter was a czar and was rather scary in his temperament, because he had a rather bad temper, too, meant that he could be alarming.

而彼得大帝是沙皇,加上发起怒来十分可怕,因为他暴躁易怒,人们畏惧他

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It was no longer, after Galileo, of an ethereal temper.

在伽利略之后，它不再是一个沉重的盾牌。

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Between Slavophiles and westernizers, those are the people that look inside Russia to finding what they think to be eternal truth and those people who want to temper such looks with a look to the west.

俄国现在有斯拉夫派和西化派,一些人是希望基于俄国国情找到一种永恒真理,而另一些人则是希望,调和西方文化和俄国本土文化

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