For many, the essence of French living is to be found in the rural heartlands.

对许多人来说，法国生活方式的精髓要到心脏地带的乡村去寻找。

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Speed was of the essence in a project of this type.

速度在一个这种类型的项目中至关重要。

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Once man came to be seen as developing in the process of evolution, the idea of a substance which is contained in his essence seemed untenable.

一旦人类被看作是在进化过程中发展起来的，那么“人类是包含在他的本质中的一种物质”的观点似乎就站不住脚了。

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"Well,this is critical," "The risk of defeat goes up during this time because you have got, in essence,a political campaign.

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Many commentators have observed that The change in name accompanies a change in character, a change of essence in Israel.

许多评论家发现,名字的改变也伴随着性格的改变，以色列本质的改变。

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It's an example of a very common tool that's going to be really useful to us, not just for doing search, but for doing a whole range of problems. That is, in essence, the template the describes a log style algorithm.

不仅仅是做搜索,还可以解决一整类问题,本质上，这个模板就描述了,对数形的算法,我们一会再回来。

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In essence all of these leaders, and others, accelerated the pace of change, collaborated across partisan boundaries, challenged the status quo, eliminated red tape and bureaucracy, and did whatever was necessary to get things done.

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In particular, in order to accelerate the removal of non-performing loans from their balance sheets, banks are further asked to take specific measures to dispose, in essence, of half of such loans within a year and a large part (around 80%) within two years.

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The issue of Soviet-American relations is in essence a test of the overall worth of the United States as a nation among nations.

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