They come from a quality over quantity culture, and want to do their best, but not at the expense of everything else in their lives.

他们来自于这样一种文化：质量重于数量。他们想做到最好，但绝不是以生活中一切作为代价。

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Over the years voters have become less inclined to believe that the rich live under different laws, or to imagine that big business benefits its owners at the expense of the workers.

多年以来，选民们倾向于不再相信富人们可以超越法律，不再想象大企业会以员工们的利益为代价为企业主牟利。

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There is a legitimate debate over how deeply the U.S. military should invest in counterinsurgency capability at the expense of conventional capacity.

在常规能力的范围内，争论的焦点主要是美军到底应该投入多少军事能力。

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"We have to protect the social gains that we have made in this hemisphere over the past decade,and ensure that the economic recovery of all the countries in the hemisphere does not come at the expense of the poorest and most vulnerable members of our society,".

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In the past five years, a five-vote conservative majority in the court has attempted to push back what it sees as an over-expansion of federal power at the expense of the states.

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In times of austerity, questions would be raised over the cost of any new royal yacht at the expense of the taxpayers.

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