I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

我认为伊索的意思是，如果你对别人行善，你可以希望这一善事会反过来使你，也就是做这件善事的人，在某种程度上受益。

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On the one side, you have the United States government's mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort: the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer's phone.

一方是美国政府强大的法律和安全机构，他们所争夺的是最能引起同情的数据：藏在制造群体谋杀的死者手机里的秘密。

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One recent study found a sort of clever twist on this.

最近一项研究让这一话题有了巧妙转折。

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"I am one of the few new guys." "I definitely have been able to get a sort of perspective of what to expect and what to look out for in terms of managing the added pressure and different situations that are above and beyond something that I have ever encountered."

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One of the things that extended time in the wilderness allows is sort of a reorienting of the idea of control.

在野外读过的漫长时间,让我们懂得很多事情，其中之一,是对于“控制“这一概念的重新认识。

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Somebody might be sort of a disorganized librarian and might want to put this one upside down but over here.

有些人可能是一个没有条理的图书管理员,想要把这个颠倒过来,放在这边。

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In this story, he came to office in a time of unprecedented economic difficulty, one of a sort not seen before, at least since the Great Depression.

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However, having a proper place besides the bathroom to store makeup and perfume, dry my hair and eyeball my skin has always felt like a necessity and the lack of one a sort of lifestyle tragedy.

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Yugoslavia is a different sort of war, one much more in accord with New Labour's claim to be prosecuting a more ethical sort of foreign policy.

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