But it took up to now to witness the process in action and pin down the mechanism.

We are trying to pin down his speech.

我们正努力准确说明他的讲话。

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Officials are trying to pin down the cause of widespread power cuts.

官员们正在设法确定大面积停电的原因。

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Without metaphor, love would be notoriously difficult to pin down.

没有隐喻人类将无法准确美妙地表达爱情。

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I know there's something wrong but it's hard to pin down.

我知道有点不对头，可是很难证实。

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The cause of the disease is difficult to pin down precisely.

病因目前还难于解释清楚。

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Yet this number is hard to pin down.

但这个数字很难弄清楚。

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Culture is a difficult concept to pin down.

文化是一个非常难讲清楚的概念。

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If you could try and pin down where you were.

如果我能确定你到底在哪儿。

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But we have got now to pin down specific plans and specific implications for jobs.

但是我们现在必须确定详细计划并预计其对工作岗位产生的具体影响。

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"Useful namely the truth" is wrong in essence. But it can play a positive role upon the process of achieving the values and the attention of mutual cognition in the formation of the truth.

有用即真理在本质上是错误的，但其在研究真理论时注重其兑现价值、在真理产生过程中注重人们相互认同的作用等对我们在全面认识真理论时是有一定的积极作用的；

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Cognitive style and word list play a different influence upon the correct recognition rate of words have learned and the false recognition rate of critic lure.

认知风格与词表性质对学过单词的正确再认率与对关键诱饵的错误再认率影响不同。

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All subjects are videotaped for pretend play and measured upon MSCA-CR Verbal Test and standard false belief tasks.

研究程序包括假装游戏的拍摄、麦卡锡幼儿言语智力测验和两类标准错误信念任务。

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It was not Christmas Eve then, but it came into his head to play a trick upon the bull.

不过那时候不是圣诞节前夕，但是他突然想到要同那头公牛开个玩笑。

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Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, even upon a dreamer's fancy.

月光能够让人产生奇异的幻觉，甚至对梦里的人也一样。

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The play is based upon an actual event.

该剧本是根据真实的故事编写的。

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If I took your novel and made a play based upon it, or if I translated it or abridged it, none of those activities were regulated by the original copyright act.

如果我把你的小说改编成一部戏剧，或者翻译或者削减之，这些行为没有一项是受制于原来的版权法的。

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I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness* where to all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.

我从未学习过如何为竖琴调弦，也不知如何弹奏鲁特琴。但我懂得如何使一座偏僻的无名小镇发展成辉煌而伟大的城市，使世界各国的子民前来朝圣。

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Bear in mind that the dark Ones are well aware of Ascension and the events leading up to it, and they play upon a scenario that largely fits your beliefs.

请记住，黑暗势力也非常的了解扬升计划以及引导走向它的事件，并且他们在玩弄一种场景去刻意迎合你们的信念。

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The word "subjectivism" is to be understood in two senses, and our adversaries play upon only one of them.

“主观主义”具有两种意义，而我们的反对者只是接触到其中的一个而已。

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Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.

无论你把我叫做什么乐器，你也只能撩拨我，不能玩弄我。

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