The point of these stories, their internal objectives, so the speak, is usually to explain some features of the animal, how it arose.

这些故事的重点，它们的内在目标，可以说，通常是解释动物的某些特征，它是如何产生的。

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So how can Lady Ashton fly to Russia to "speak for Europe" when any number of European countries will be deep in Russian intrigues she knows nothing about?

因此，怎么可能要艾什顿飞到俄国去“为欧洲说话”而其他的欧洲国家都在秘密和俄国进行她所不知的交易呢？

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But, Ellen, 'cried she, staring, fixed in astonishment,' how dare he speak so to me? Mustn't he be made to do as I ask him?

“可是，艾伦，”她喊着，瞪着眼，惊愕不已，“他怎么敢这样跟我说话呢！”我叫他作事他不就得作吗？

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Is that how important is it that we get control of that border and seal it, so to speak.

对于我们来说,控制或者是夺取这个关口，是不是很重要呢。

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The aim of the Republic is to establish a harmonious city, based on a conception of justice that, so to speak, harmonizes the individual and society, how to achieve that.

理想国》的主要目的,是要建立一座和谐的城邦，其基础概念是正义，也可以说是要协调个人与社会，及陈述达成目的的方法。

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There is this include which allows me to include code, source code so to speak that other people wrote so I don't have to figure out for myself how to print things to the screen.

这个“include“可以让我加进一些代码来，比方说其他人写的源码,这样我就不用自己解决,如何在屏幕上输出了，别人已经为我解决这个问题。

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Mr. KEITH ASHDOWN (Chief Investigator, Taxpayers for Common Sense): We spent several months trying to figure out, you know, how could we make this sexy, so to speak, for the lower 48 states and for the news media.

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