If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson (which is not at all necessary), hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

如果你必须要把自己看成是孩子的实物教材(其实根本没有必要)，那就把自己当成是孩子的一个警示吧，而并非是范例。

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Opponents of emissions-trading will hold up every glitch as an example of how misguided the whole concept is; proponents will insist it proves emissions-trading is viable, whatever its flaws.

排放量交易制度的反对者为了证明碳交易的概念是如何的错误，将为这一制度制造尽可能多的障碍。 另一方面，不管碳排放量交易制度表现出何种缺陷，其支持者将坚称其实可行的。

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He will hold up Ghana, which has had a series of successful elections as an example for the rest of Africa to follow.

他将支持迦纳，因为迦纳举行了一系列成功的选举，为非洲其他国家树立了榜样。

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Ample punishment has already been doled out to Gupta and prison is just a poor excuse as a way to hold him up as an example to the rest of us.

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And websites like these hold it up as an example for firms to follow.

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Do you think they would want to hold him up as an example of their brand, their company, their values?

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