He had to choose between giving up his job and giving up his principles. He chose the former.

他得在放弃工作和放弃原则二者中择其一。他选择了前者。

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He knew that if he picked up normal pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebbles hundreds of times.

他知道如果他捡起普通的石子再扔下去，因为它们是冷的，他可能会捡起同样的石子几百次。

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He and I dated for over a year, and when we broke up, I thought my angsty heart was going to spit itself right up out of my sore throat.

他和我约会了一年多，在我们分手的时候，我想我那颗难过的心快要从我疼痛的喉咙里吐出来了。

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He says the financial crisis should be seen as a wake-up call to change systems and ways of thinking, and to re-establish trust.

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Satan has roused himself from off the burning marl, and he stands in order to call up his fallen minions, to rouse them to acts- great acts of heroism.

撒旦已经从灰土中站起身，召唤着他同样堕落了的随从们，唤醒他们实现英雄之举。

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Lycidas' death -- remember this is the poem that Milton didn't want to write, he was "forc'd" to write it -Lycidas' death allows the uncouth swain to grow up and to move on.

利西达斯的死-记住这是一首,弥尔顿并不想完成的诗，他是被迫的,使得这个粗鄙的年轻人能够成长并继续前进。

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He's a big guy, he stood up and -- he stood up, I thought, man, that's a big guy, I better call on him. (Laughter.) Say you're big, too -- I agree. (Laughter.) Don't worry, I'm not saying you're not big. (Laughter.) All right, go ahead.

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And those investments include -- and he brought this up in Colorado -- the production tax credit, the wind energy tax credit that has broad bipartisan support in states like Colorado and Iowa, that is essential to 5, 000 jobs in Colorado.

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He is now concentrating on relatively non-controversial projects such as a city-wide clean-up (though he tactlessly, and unsuccessfully, asked the workers to collect the rubbish after hours without charging overtime).

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