Perhaps most importantly, there is the clash between world views, where on the one hand, there is the democratic and progressive trend embodied in the venerable and still extant tradition of Arab liberalism, and on the other hand,the bloody and violent current represented by far too many of the region's seminal figures."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The Times of London is one of the most venerable newspapers in the world and it was losing money fast; it might have disappeared if Murdoch hadn't taken over.

泰晤士报》在世界上受人尊敬,但它亏损很快,假如默多克没有收购它,可能已经消失了

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You can see, this is how the unseen rule of finance-- The Wall Street Journal is a venerable newspaper and source of information about finance, but it's not making money.

可以看到,这就是金融界的潜规则,《华尔街日报》是一份令人尊敬的报纸,和金融信息的来源,但它并不盈利

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The venerable paterfamilias, the venerable father of the family.

令人肃然起敬的男家长，家中令人肃然起敬的父亲角色。

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So--but he is the venerable sitar player.

毕竟他是位可敬的锡塔尔琴演奏家

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Almost all pro-slavery writers at one point or another will dip into the Old Testament, or dip into the New Testament they especially would dip to the Old to show how slavery is an ancient and venerable institution.

几乎所有的亲奴主义作家,都或多或少地接触过《旧约》,或阅读过《新约》,特别是《旧约》,因为他们,需要证明奴隶制是一个古老而庄严的制度

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Earnings are something that accountants have generated and they've been doing it all the way back to 1871-- it's a venerable concept; it's how much money the company made this year, if it's annual earnings.

收益是会计们算出来的,从1871年来一直如此,他们值得尊敬,年收益指的是公司这一年赚到的钱

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