If the family spends 1% of the principal a year, it has a 92% chance of preserving its fortune.

如果这家人每年花掉本金的1%，则有92%的几率可以保住本金。

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They were the principal shareholders in a bank riddled with corruption.

他们是一家腐败成风的银行的主要股东。

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I asked my principal if he could arrange a collection for a refugee charity.

我问我的校长能否为难民组织一次慈善募捐。

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There is a scientific principal application that's responsible for it."

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He expressed his will that there be light, and there was light And that's very different from many Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies in which there's always a sexual principal at work in creation.

他表达意愿希望有光，于是便有了光,这与古代近东的宇庙学解释有很大出入,在其中，创世过程中有性的因素。

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That's a good question. As a parent or as a principal?

这个问题很好。从父母还是校长的角度来说呢？

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This exclusion applies whether a taxpayer restructures his or her acquisition debt on a principal residence, loses his or her principal residence in a foreclosure, or sells a principal residence in a short sale.

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Workers living outside a principal city and working in a principal city show the highest rates of long commutes, at 12.5%, the report shows.

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She was a principal not a partner, because she had not been allowed to go out on audits.

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