They can't be decreed. My mother used to try to decree them.

我的妈妈曾经试着颁布传统。

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They are the performances of our lives. They are a kind of shorthand. They can't be decreed.

他们是我们生活的表现，他们是一种浓缩，他们不能被强制的命令。

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It was decreed that the following day would be a holiday.

法令宣布第二天为休假日。

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All day permanent violence, because human males craved it and the powers-that-be decreed it.

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Plus, to his credit, he seems to understand that the battle with the bottle is not something that can be decreed by autocratic fiat, but rather that it is going to have to be a long, drawn-out (boring) campaign if it is ever to be effective.

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We know that it will take many years and patient and persistent engagement with people around the world to build a consensus around cyberspace, but there are no shortcuts because what citizens do online should not, as some have suggested, be decreed solely by groups of governments making decisions for them somewhere on high.

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