He continued to rule the country de facto.

实际上，他继续统治着这个国家。

《牛津词典》

He had to find someone to rule the country.

他必须找个人来统治这个国家。

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In a word, this government isn't fit to rule.

总之，这届政府不胜任执政之事。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"My fellow Americans, I have just returned from Berlin, the city from which the Germans intended to rule the world.

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As we all know, this only works if there is a pointee, which kind of gets back to rule number one.

众所周知，只有当有指针数据时，这个才起作用，这有点像第一条规则。

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Good. To rule out the second slice, I need to be rational myself, and I need to know that others are rational.

要剔除46到67的数,不仅首先自己要是理性的,而且也要知道别人也是理性的

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The court has yet to rule on compensation and care for the many child victims.

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It means that consumer preferences will soon start to rule many aspects of enterprise IT.

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Mr Justice Horner is expected to rule on the defence application at a later stage.

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