It is sad to see a man so corrupted by the desire for money and power.

看到一个人被金钱和权力欲望所腐蚀很可悲。

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The justifications change. The desire for more trees remains constant.

理由在变，但对更多树木的渴望是不变的。

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The desire for peaceful reunification of the mother and is taking hold in the hearts of the entire Chinese nation.

祖国和平统一的愿望，正在全中华民族的心中生根。

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Another time she would have ignored the desire for food until reaching her own home.

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Typically, we're distracted from thinking about them by the distractions provided by the body-- the desire for food, drink, sex, what have you, sleep.

通常我们对这些东西的思考,被身体的一些需求打乱了,比如对食物,饮料,性,睡眠的欲望

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So nonetheless,the desire for a good commercial opportunity might well have been one of the elements that these people who were leaving their home cities sought.

但是,对于贸易机遇的渴望应该是,驱使古希腊人背井离乡的,一个重要因素

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On the contrary, he is attracted to their youth and the desire for purity and sacrifice.

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But as wealth returned it brought the desire for a more conservative and ostentatious lifestyle.

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But you know, ever since the ancient Greeks - Thucydides wrote about the desire for honor.

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