The central character is a bad man who shoots people and gets his comeuppance.

中心角色是个开枪杀人并遭了报应的坏蛋。

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They believe that the animals painted were those central to the symbolic and spiritual life of the times, animals that represented something deep and spiritual to the people.

他们相信，画上的动物是那个时代的象征和精神生活的中心，是在人们心中代表着某种深刻和精神的东西的动物。

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That would take well-paid people out of downtown New Orleans, a move that will impact the central business district's economy.

这将使高收入人群离开新奥尔良市中心，这是一个将影响中心商业区经济的举措。

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Historians believe the Maya people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around two thousand years ago.

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Of course in the central test case this is what we all care about, for the unfortunate events that befall virtuous people.

当然，这是我们归根到底都关心的一个问题，因为有德行之人也会遭遇不幸。

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A lot of people that um... are visiting the Central Park.

在中央公园游玩的人很多，

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While in the rest of Central America people are moving from the countryside to cities, since 2000 the urban share of Belize's population has fallen from 47% to 44%, as immigrants have set up border towns.

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Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

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In each and every one he stressed how the consumer, the customer, or simply the people were the central concern of his company.

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