"Iran is trying to gain nuclear weapons. And if nothing serious, nothing dramatic will be done by the West,it will get there in a year or two,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Right. But you're a upstanding modern Muslim but you're just trying to get by, you're just trying to do the right thing by your own faith tradition.

是的，如果说您是个非常优秀的现代穆斯林,但是您只是勉强过得去，您只是在试图做正确的事,根据您自己的信仰传统。

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trying to get bought by major studios , so they can then hit the main theaters.

尝试着被主要的工作室收买，那样它们就可以在各大影院上映了。

三角地电影节 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"One of the things we need to start doing is to get ahead of the curve by trying to anticipate additional methods that can be used against us and closing the gaps before those gaps are exploited,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

that after Lolita.) But what I mean is that the reader must know when and where to contribute his imagination, and this he does by trying to get clear the specific world the author places at his disposal.

有些人可能就会那样想）,但我的意思是,读者必须知道何时何地需要发挥想像力,这样以看清作者所设置的特定的世界,在这篇小品文中。

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Depending on what F you fill in the blank with, what pet feature or fact you're trying to explain by appeal to the soul, you get a different argument.

根据你所挑选的不同功能特性F,以及你试图解释的现象或事实,诉诸于灵魂来进行解释,你会得到不同的论点

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