But she soon found a curious correspondence between the ostensibly chance position of the cows and her wishes in this matter, till she felt that their order could not be the result of accident.

后来不久，她发现奶牛排列的次序表面上看起来是偶然的，但是同她的愿望又能奇怪地一致，关于这件事，她感到它们的次序决不是偶然的结果。

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In OCTOBER 2007 Gordon Brown decided against a snap election, ostensibly in order to lay his vision for Britain before the electorate in a more leisurely manner.

2007年10月，戈登·布朗煞有介事的反对仓促的选举，实际上他是想在选民面前更加轻松的解释他为英国描绘的前景。

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The Labour governments of that period also began to dot the Jordan valley and Golan Heights with Jewish settlements, ostensibly in order to guard the new borders against a still hostile Arab world.

ECONOMIST: Iraq, Israel and the United Nations

The prosperity we enjoy today suggests that the poor are helped most meaningfully by economic progress progress that we are forsaking in order to redistribute wealth ostensibly on their behalf and to fight wars of questionable merit and constitutionality.

FORBES: No Taxation

This transaction would support the sale of U.S. oil field equipment to the Chernogorskoye Joint Venture, ostensibly a private sector project, in order to develop a new oil field in Western Siberia.

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