From the military point of view the expedition had achieved its aims. We had drawn the dragon's teeth but many will say we had also sown them.

从军事上看，我们那次远征达到了目的。我们铲除了后患，不过许多人会说我们同时也种下了祸根。

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You may not have achieved all your aims but your efforts are good ones.

你或许没有达到全部目的但你的努力却是非常好的。

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He may not have achieved all his aims. But his effort is a good one.

他可能没达到他的全部目的，但他还是认真做了努力的。

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But these three aims achieved, the fourth must be an avoidance of any merely vengeful or repressive provisions against Germany, which would provide genuine grievances for a new Hitler.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

But welfare reform, like socialism, is the language of priorities often some of these aims can be achieved only at the expense of others.

ECONOMIST: Welfare reform

But those security aims have been achieved, and there would be little point in making such a controversial concession for a prize that has already been won.

ECONOMIST: The Lockerbie controversy