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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.
如果失去這筆法院證明其獨(dú)立價(jià)值的工作所必須的撥款，這次特別的憲制改革就會顯得拙劣無比了。
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，”希刺克厲夫說，勉強(qiáng)使自己顯得平靜，“你主人除了出于世俗的仁愛觀念和一種責(zé)任感之外就沒有什么可依仗的了，這是很可能的。
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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.
一定數(shù)量對商業(yè)行為“保持沉默”的辦法對自由軟件社區(qū)是有用的，但如果他們變得過份普遍以至于對自由的熱愛似乎成了怪癖，這便是危險(xiǎn)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.
這些作者越來越被神化了，換句話說，在一定意義上,就被理解為神圣造物主的預(yù)留的位置。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
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.
世界上有很多種語言在使用中，然而語言的運(yùn)用卻顯得任意，而非自然而然的作為傳統(tǒng)的產(chǎn)物;,不像是與生俱來的才能，而像后天學(xué)會的，像是某些創(chuàng)造再創(chuàng)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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