In fact, drawing up the list becomes a way of avoiding the work itself.

事实上，列出清单成为了一种对工作逃避方式本身。

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Higher prices, called price premiums, can be justified as a way to compensate farmers for providing ecosystem services and avoiding environmental damage or external costs.

更高的价格，亦称为价格溢价，可以作为补偿农民的一种措施，补偿其为提供生态系统服务、避免环境破坏或外部成本带来的损失。

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He just did his job in a matter-of-fact way and was not to be interested in gaining merit, but only in avoiding making mistakes.

他在工作上进取心不大，常常是不求有功，但求无过。

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It's a case of balancing options but there is no way of avoiding pain.

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And both have to find a way of avoiding the coalition dissolving into sterile squabbling.

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In some ways, indeed, the constitutional debate has become a way of avoiding a debate over enlargement.

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