They value the environmental quality they preserve over their oil imports from abroad.

比起从国外进口的石油，他们更重视所维护的环境质量。

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Environmental organizations want to preserve the land surrounding the Wilgrinn Wilderness Area from residential development.

环保组织希望保护威尔格林荒野地区周围的土地不受住宅开发的影响。

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The society was set up to preserve endangered species from extinction.

成立这个协会是为了保护濒危物种不致灭绝。

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Bio-trade analyst at the U.N.Conference on Trade and Development Lucas Assuncao says local communities will be more inclined to preserve their flora and fauna, if they can see economic benefits from using their natural resources in a sustainable manner.

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We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

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And this is the reason why the wearing of the burqa has become a necessity, more to preserve women from malicious eyes than to spare men the temptations of infinite allurements.

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They looted everything, but not before he had returned to make one mad effort to save some of his academic books - an effort to preserve something from a more sane past.

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The project aims to transform society through music, reflecting the idea that orchestral and choral practice gives children and youth important values and helps preserve them from the dangers of drugs and crime.

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