Yet a study released Thursday said men still hold about nine out of every ten top positions at the four hundred largest companies in California.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Anyway, my mother tried to paint me, but I'd never hold still long enough.

我母亲也试过给我画肖像,可我总是坐不住

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They still hold gold and right now the Federal Reserve System has about eleven billion dollars of gold.

他们仍然持有金子,并且现在，联邦储备系统拥有价值,一百一十亿美元的金子。

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Also Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that the U.S.can still hold some prisoners at Guantanamo indefinitely without any charges.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still ; Things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill: So prythee go with me.

你听见我说话，却默不作声,坏事开始发生;,恶势力让他们更加壮大：,所以，跟我一起走吧。

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So, for instance, it's a moral principle that some of us would hold to that even if stereotypes are correct it is still immoral to apply them in day to day life.

例如，有一个道德原则,是有些人很坚持的,那就是即使刻板印象是正确的,但如果在日常生活中应用它，是不道德的。

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People didn't expect that to hold and so people thought, well it's going to still be down at 1% maybe in three months.

命中认为这项政策不会延续下去,利率仅会在未来三个月内维持在1%的低位

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