If you only pray about them once, they are not a desire, they are just a whim.

如果你只对它们祷告一次，它们不是一个愿望，它们只是一时兴起。

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Or why not find out whether there is a bigger demand for your product in the South East of England, Wales or Scotland instead of risking money by launching it on a whim?

或者为什么不去看看英格兰东南部、威尔士或者苏格兰等地区是否存在对你的产品的需求，而是仅凭一时心血来潮就拿你的资金去冒险呢？

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As such, it comes with a feeling of "seriousness"; this language was not created on a whim, and it will not be abandoned in the same fashion.

而且，它给人一种“严肃”的感觉；该语言并不是一时兴起而创建的，它也不会以同样的方式被抛弃。

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That is the essence of what we do as lawyers: advocate for clients within a system that seeks to make decisions based on law and established procedure, not whim or ideology or political power.

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Thirdly, the approach that Mr Cameron is taking is based not on whim, but on hard evidence of what will befall the party if it fails to change.

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The deal with Hudbay was not done on a whim.

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