You want a more expressive spouse, but want to control what they express.

你想要一个更富于表达的伴侣，但你却想控制他们表达的内容。

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A significant chunk of work that was done was to try and make the API expressive from a performance viewpoint.

前面所作的工作中很重要的一块就是尽量使得此api在性能方面富于表现力。

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The first movement, although expressive, maintains a lightness in thesound.

第一乐章，富有表现力的同时又不失轻盈。

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Like many of U2's songs, it is an expressive love song with a melody that is hard to forget.

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It gives you a lot of expressive convenience, you can write the programs much more cleanly, but most importantly, it's fast.

你可以把一些程序写的更清楚，最重要的是，它的效率非常高。

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They don't think so much of language as a mediating force as an expressive force.

他们不觉得这多么言语,是一种调和的力量，是一种表达的力量。

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You know, you can sustain a note, you can pop a note, you can, you know, finesse a note, and it's very expressive like a human voice or a saxophone.

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Also, not to be impolite or anything, but how expressive is a fish, until it hits a grill?

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There's enough going on between Carell and Binoche -- she's a deliciously expressive actress -- that the film works as a mature romance and not just as another formulaic comedy.

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