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If losing the funds it needs to do its job proves the price of independence, this particular bit of constitutional reform will come to seem inept.
如果失去这笔法院证明其独立价值的工作所必须的拨款，这次特别的宪制改革就会显得拙劣无比了。
That is quite possible,' remarked Heathcliff, forcing himself to seem calm: `quite possible that your master should have nothing but common humanity and a sense of duty to fall back upon.
“那倒是挺可能的，”希刺克厉夫说，勉强使自己显得平静，“你主人除了出于世俗的仁爱观念和一种责任感之外就没有什么可依仗的了，这是很可能的。
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A certain amount of the “keep quiet” approach to business can be useful for the community, but it is dangerous if it becomes so common that the love of freedom comes to seem like an eccentricity.
一定数量对商业行为“保持沉默”的办法对自由软件社区是有用的，但如果他们变得过份普遍以至于对自由的热爱似乎成了怪癖，这便是危险的了。

The study identified factors that seem to increase or decrease the risk that a child will be a bully.
The literary creator starts to seem a lot more like the divine creator, that is to say, and in a certain sense could be understood as a placeholder for the divine creator.
这些作者越来越被神化了，换句话说，在一定意义上,就被理解为神圣造物主的预留的位置。
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Where there are many languages in use, language comes to seem arbitrary rather than natural, ; as the product of convention; not as something you're simply born into but something that you learn, something that is made and that can be remade.
世界上有很多种语言在使用中，然而语言的运用却显得任意，而非自然而然的作为传统的产物;,不像是与生俱来的才能，而像后天学会的，像是某些创造再创造的事物。
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British Airways scrapped the Union Jack on half its fleet to seem more international.
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