There is no give and take, as the controller is uncomfortable and bossy if you want to make a choice about something.

那是不容商量的，因为如果你想对某件事做出选择，控制狂会不安且专横。

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David made a gesture, spreading out his hands as if he were showing that he had no explanation to make.

大卫做了个手势，双手一摊，似乎表示他没有什么可解释的。

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As a candidate, you must make a good impression on everyone you meet if you want to win the election.

作为候选人，如果你想赢得选举，你必须给每个你遇到的人都留下好印象。

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Daphne is supposed to be seen as one of those moms who mean well even if they make their kids crazy.

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But it's almost as if Milton were tempted now to make himself go even further back, to write a humble ode that he could place at the feet of the Creator, the Creator at the moment of the actual creation of the entire universe.

但弥尔顿那时好像,要把自己放回比那还要早的年代，来写一篇谦逊的颂歌安放在造物主的脚下，那时的造物主实际就是创造天地万物的神。

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But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.

但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。

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Certainly, many of the opposition's charges seem far-fetched such as the assertion that the government is giving its victims cancer but so are officials' explanations that involve parents beating the corpses of their children to make it look as if they were pummelled to death by the police.

ECONOMIST: Bahrain

" Vyarawalla often photographed Gandhi from below "to make it look as if we are looking up to him.

WSJ: Photos of India to Go on View in New York

One such was the hurried build-up, made even more hurried by Tony Blair's desire, until as late as possible, to make it look as if peace might still break out.

ECONOMIST: Geoff Hoon misses his chance to go graciously