In an effort to do away with the pagan festival, Pope Gelasius ordered a slight change in the lottery. Instead of the names of young women, the box would contain the names of saints.

为了废除这个异教的节日，罗马教皇盖拉西厄斯命令抽签活动必须稍作改动：盒子里面装的不再是年轻女孩的名字，而是圣徒的名字。

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If the West deems it right to bomb Libya in an effort to force the murderous Muammar Qaddafi from power, why not do the same to Syria?

如果西方认为，为迫使杀人不眨眼的穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲下台而轰炸利比亚属于正当之举，那为什么不轰炸叙利亚呢？

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The clueless ones do dumb things like pay too much for acquisitions in an effort to plump earnings per share.

愚蠢的人会做一些无知的事情，比如为了增加每股收益而在收购方面耗费过多。

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And he looks forward to engaging the American people in an effort to do more.

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In an effort to do that, he announced a pilot scheme - to be launched in two regions - in which all offenders leaving jail will be "met at the prison gates by providers in the Work Programme" who will make sure they go through a "tough process" to get into a job.

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