Many signals that animals make seem to impose on the signalers costs that are overly damaging.

动物发出的许多信号似乎使信号传递者付出了过于沉重的代价。

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The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for disappointment.

我们强加给孩子们的雄心壮志可能会让一些人进入哈佛，但也可能会让他们失望。

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He tells us how to cross the barriers that we impose on our lives.

他告诉我们如何跨越我们自己施加于生命的障碍。

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"And,we can impose significant fines and sanctions on toy manufacturers or importers who do not meet these requirements."

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This is the remarkable thing about so many of Milton's similes: they're always bursting out of whatever critical or theological constraints that we work so hard to impose on them.

这是弥尔顿的比喻中的亮点：,它们总是能从我们强加的,无论多批判多神学的束缚中,挣脱出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What turns out to be the practical fact is that he who has the power and the will to do what he wants will be able to do so, and he who has not will be forced to suffer whatever the powerful impose on him.

事实上只有有能力及意愿,去做某事的人,才能最终做成某事,而没有能力或意愿的人则会因之,而遭受不幸

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Rather, the purpose of this hearing is to determine what penalty to impose on Mr. Gingrich.

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It eases the burden on our conscience that the troubles of other people impose on us.

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They are trying to impose on the rest of the country a new pagan religion.

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