In private, Kostya thought that he might have been able to contend with Ivetta's anger, but in public he felt inhibited by shame.

如果是在私下里，克斯特亚觉得自己也许能够安抚艾薇塔的愤怒，但在公开场合，他感到自己被耻辱紧紧地束缚住了。

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Histories make me wise; poets witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy , deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric , able to contend .

历史使人明智；诗句使人诙谐；数学使人精确；哲学使人深邃；道德使人庄重；逻辑和修辞使人善辩。---培根。

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They may or may not be able to contend with missiles launched from the sea close in to our shores.

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Apparently, the decisive argument will be that only transnational bureaucrats will be able to contend with the implications of the melting Arctic ice caps induced by global warming.

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Loeb was even able to contend with a faulty electronic reading which indicated that Hirvonen had taken 14 seconds out of his lead on the penultimate stage, when in fact the margin was just 2.4 seconds.

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