Many signals that animals make seem to impose on the signalers costs that are overly damaging.

动物发出的许多信号似乎使信号传递者付出了过于沉重的代价。

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The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for disappointment.

我们强加给孩子们的雄心壮志可能会让一些人进入哈佛，但也可能会让他们失望。

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He tells us how to cross the barriers that we impose on our lives.

他告诉我们如何跨越我们自己施加于生命的障碍。

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"And,we can impose significant fines and sanctions on toy manufacturers or importers who do not meet these requirements."

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To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.

在创作的时候，作者会给文章加上个限制，他最后会给出一个象征意义来结束写作。

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So, what he did was kind of impose a quantum mechanical model, not a full one, just the idea that those energy levels were quantized on to the classical picture of an atom that has a discreet orbit.

还不是完整的,只是这些能级，是量子化的概念，作用到原子有分立轨道的经典原子模型上,当他做了一些计算后,他得到有个半径,他算出来。

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Rather, the purpose of this hearing is to determine what penalty to impose on Mr. Gingrich.

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It eases the burden on our conscience that the troubles of other people impose on us.

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It is awkward to hold foreigners to higher standards than you impose on yourself.

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