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but

英[bət , bʌt]
美[bət , bʌt]

基本释义

  • conj.但是,然而; 只有
  • prep.除了
  • adv.只有; 仅仅
  • n.借口; 推辞

词性变化

实用例句

Nothing, but nothing would make him change his mind.

没有什么,绝对没有什么会使他改变主意。

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But that's not possible!

但那是不可能的!

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‘Here's the money I owe you. ’ ‘But that's not right─it was only £10. ’

“这是我欠你的钱。”“但这不对呀——我只借了10英镑给你。”

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I had no choice but to sign the contract.

我别无选择,只好签了合同。

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It isn't that he lied exactly, but he did tend to exaggerate.

他不见得是真的说谎,但他的确是有意夸大。

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I'd asked everybody but only two people came.

每个人我都请了,却只来了两个人。

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By the end of the day we were tired but happy.

一天结束时,我们很累,但很高兴。

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I'm sorry but I can't stay any longer.

很抱歉,我不能再待下去了。

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I got it wrong. It wasn't the red one but the blue one.

我弄错了。不是红的那个,是蓝的那个。

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His mother won't be there, but his father might.

他母亲不会在那里,但他父亲也许会去。

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The pistol was positioned where I couldn't help but see it...

手枪放在我抬眼就能看见的地方。

She could not but congratulate him.

她只能祝贺他。

...the small square below, empty but for a delivery van and a clump of palm trees...

下面的小广场空空荡荡,只有一辆送货车和几棵棕榈树

But for you, they might have given us the slip.

要不是你,我们可能已经被他们甩掉了。

My husband spends hours in the bathroom, but then again so do I.

我丈夫常占用浴室好几个小时,不过我也是这样。

He was a fine young man, but then so had his father been...

他年轻有为,不过他父亲也曾经是。

Sonia might not speak the English language well, but then who did?

索尼娅的英语也许说得不好,但谁又说得好呢?

He committed a crime, no ifs or buts about it.

他犯了罪,这是无可争辩的。

'B-b-b-b-but' I stuttered. — 'Never mind the buts,' she ranted...

“但——但——但是”,我结结巴巴地说道。——“别跟我讲那些‘但是’了。”她咆哮道。

...Napoleon and Marie Antoinette, to name but two who had stayed in the great state rooms.

只提两位在贵宾房住过的人,就是拿破仑和玛丽·安托瓦妮特。

He didn't speak anything but Greek...

他只会说希腊语。

This is but one of the methods used to try and get alcoholics to give up drink.

这只是为让那些酗酒者戒酒所尝试的方法之一。

I'm sorry, but it's nothing to do with you...

对不起,但是这跟你没关系。

'I don't think I should stay in this house' — 'But why?'...

“我觉得我不应该再呆在这所房子里。”——“可是为什么?”

'Somebody wants you on the telephone' — 'But no one knows I'm here!'

“有人打电话找你。”——“可没有人知道我在这里啊!”

Europe will be represented in all but two of the seven races...

除了两项赛事之外,欧洲在其余5项赛事中都有代表参加。

Please excuse me, but there is something I must say...

不好意思,但有些话我必须说。

'You said you'd stay till tomorrow.' — 'I know, Bel, but I think I would rather go back.'...

“你说过你要呆到明天的。”——“我知道,贝尔,但我还是想回去。”

Place the saucepan over moderate heat until the cider is very hot but not boiling...

把炖锅置于中火上加热,直到苹果酒变得很烫,但不要加热到沸腾。

They need to recruit more people into the prison service. But another point I'd like to make is that many prisons were built in the nineteenth century.

监狱需要招募更多的工作人员。但我想补充一点,很多监狱都是在19世纪建造的。

真题例句

This type of memory is particularly vulnerable to interference.

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The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

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The late Richard Hackman of Harvard University once argued, I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary… But don't count on it.

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The bulk of the research shows that there may be a pause, or a shifting of gears in the 40s or 50s, but this shift can be exciting, rather than terrifying.

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Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

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Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.

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Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.

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I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.

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He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his whole life in detail.

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But there's an appeal in that vulnerability.

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But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

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But at least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.

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But a new report by Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

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But I know if you don't grow, you stand still, and that doesn't work for me.

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And when we retrieve information, both the desired and associated but irrelevant information is recalled.

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But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

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But 75% of drivers say they wouldn’t feel safe in such a vehicle.

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Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.

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Some show up ready, but many do not at this critical time when young brains are developing rapidly.

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It's no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat.

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But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared.

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But water shortages are even more worrying in India.

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But unlike the modern definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence and luxury, for the ancient Greeks, it meant finding a state of calm, peace and mental ease.

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But this and other price shocks were event-driven—drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S.Corn Belt.

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But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

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But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels.

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But perhaps they don't have to turn themselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees.

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But nobody greeted the daughter and mother when they arrived, though the visit has been planned; nobody introduced them to the other residents.

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But it gets complicated.

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But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for humanity.

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But both studies show that long life isn't just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health.

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But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

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But according to Aristotle—a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great—most relationships don't qualify as true friendships.

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She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls.

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Jody has a Ph.D.in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

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Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

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I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.

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Sometimes this involves technology, but often it does not.

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It is but a matter of personal taste.

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I realized these different types of students not only explain their failures differently, but they also hold different theories of intelligence.

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Good teaching and research are not exclusive, but they are also not automatic companions.

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For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

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For example, having salt on the outside, but none on the inside, reduces the salt content without changing the taste.

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But with the new rules in France, U.S. support could make a difference.

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But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

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But not all oil producers have big reserves.

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But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.

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But how probable is it that someone will successfully jam their way into your home and steal your stuff?Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.

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But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.

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But as the work became more difficult, the students with a growth mind-set showed greater persistence.

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But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.

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But I can tell you that I like this guy.

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And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.

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And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

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A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

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This means that rivers will rise more slowly, but then stay high for much longer, the environmental agency said.

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This boosts the local economy considerably because tourists not only buy crafts, but they also use the restaurants and hotels and other services of the area.

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These are private bills, but there are also public bills to be paid.

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It’s a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have  plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

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If you are a college student looking for work but worry you won’t have enough time to devote to academic subjects, consider working as a study hall or library monitor.

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But Mr.Kibara says he has not received a higher price for his purple tea crop.

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All appears to be well, but the farmers who planted the bushes are worried.

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Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no rich people.

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This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time.

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They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

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These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and computers.

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There's no need to go out and find people you hate, but you need to do some self-assessment to determine where you have become stale in your thinking.

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There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

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These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.

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The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.

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The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.

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Some intensive summer programs are very expensive but most of them provide scholarships.

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Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

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Most people would love to get students from more underserved populations, but they just can't get them in the door.

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Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

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In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

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Children grow up learning the skills to succeed in their socioeconomic stratum( 阶层) but not necessarily others.

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But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

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But there are initiatives in place to try to get more underrepresented students involved in accelerated math.

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But the barriers are disappearing, in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public.

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But that's not the only uncertainty.

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But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.

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But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

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But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.

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A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.

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Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

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It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

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We, of course, need to pay attention to youngsters who are filled with discontent and hostility, but we should not allow these extreme cases to distort our view of most young people.

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They seem to be turning inward—generally in a pro-social manner, certainly with positive benefits for intimate relationships, but too often at the expense of a connection with the present and future world beyond, including the society they will one day inherit.

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There's work to be done, but workers aren't ready to do it—they're in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills.

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The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.

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The central figures in the Chicago schools strike are neither strikers nor managers but 350,000 children.

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The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

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That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie , but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

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Teaching is so important that it should be like other professions, with high pay and good working conditions but few job protections for bottom performers.

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Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.

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It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

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It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

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In other words, poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world, but for different reasons.

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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

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Clickthrough rates have been high so far , but that may be a result of the novelty.

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But, instead, the Chicago union seems to be using its political capital primarily to protect weak performers.

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But while the number of advertisements may have dipped, there has been a rapid spread of eco-labeling.

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But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

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But there is also a place in a young life for noble purposes that include a dedication to the broader society, a love of country and an aspiration to make their own leadership contributions.

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But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling transport.

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But the data is exact enough for a clear trend to be easily discernible.

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But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

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But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.

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But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy.

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But missing from all these data is the sense that today's young care very much about their country, about the broader civic and political environment, or about the future of their society.

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But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.

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But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.

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But finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.

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But don't bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak view.

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But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

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But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

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But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.

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But DirecTV, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have all invested in it.

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You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

But the president may be giving the financial sector too much credit.

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But now Israeli researchers are reporting that even sleeping in the same room can have negative consequences: not for the child,but for the mother.

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What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

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We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.

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This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

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The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

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The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to create more flexibility for the employer rather than the employee.

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The government has moved reluctantly into a sensible public health policy, but with such obvious over- cautiousness that any political credit due belongs to the opposition.

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The goal of keeping global temperature rise well below 2 ℃ is commendable but the emissions-reduction pledges submitted by countries leading up to the Paris talks are very unlikely to deliver on this.

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The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

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Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.

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Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

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It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.

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In-office wellness programs may help reduce stress levels, but they are hardly an ultimate solution to the problem.

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Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

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Chinese officials say the expansion in Antarctica prioritises scientific research, but they also acknowledge that concerns about resource security influence their moves.

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But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.

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But the study warns that it is teenagers who engage in all three of these practices in the extreme who are truly in jeopardy.

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But the plan was suspended in July 2013.

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But the invisible group wasn't far behind the high-risk set, with more than 13% of them exhibiting depression.

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But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.

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But strength of will is the missing ingredient where Mr.

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But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

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But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

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But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

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But an array of countries are rushing to assert greater influence here, with an eye not just towards the day those protective treaties expire, but also for the strategic and commercial opportunities that already exist.

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But advances in technology might make Antarctica a lot more accessible three decades from now.

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But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

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But Sadoway isn't alone in trumpeting energy storage as a missing link to a cleaner, more efficient, and more equitable energy future.

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But a new study finds that there's another group of adolescents who are in nearly as much danger of experiencing the same psychiatric symptoms: teens who use tons of media, don't get enough sleep and have a sedentary lifestyle.

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Brazil opened a research station in 1984, but it was largely destroyed by a fire that killed two members of the navy in 2012, the same year that a diesel-laden Brazilian barge sank near the base.

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Annual fees have risen from £1,000 to £9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.

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Today, I’d like to talk about what happens when celebrity role models get behind healthyhabits, but at the same time promote junk food.

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People who live, hunt or fish near bird coloniesneed to be careful, the researchers say, The birds don’t mean to cause harm, but the chemicals they carry can cause major problems.

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I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

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It’s no surprise that high-profile athletes can influence children’s eating behaviors, but the scientists were able to quantify how prevalent these endorsements are in the children’s environment.

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I looked through my suitcase but couldn’t find anything to wear.

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But those two beverages aren’t the same.

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But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

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But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing.

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And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

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There should be forces in society who should be concerned about the budget, but they shouldn't be functioning simultaneously as doctors, said Dr.

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The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

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A chimpanzee can't win an argument with a modern man, but it can tear the man apart like a rag doll.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it plots points and connects them with a line.

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A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

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A seminar leader shared her success story —she had not only 125 pounds, but also raised $25, 000 for homeless children.

2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 单项填空 原文

Adolescents enter high school with great excitement but are soon looking forward to graduation.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

After all, "patty poem" gave me my love for poetry not because it was the poem that lifted my spirits, but because it was the one that hurt me the most.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say

英英释义

Adverb
  • 1. and nothing more;

    "I was merely asking"

    "it is simply a matter of time"

    "just a scratch"

    "he was only a child"

    "hopes that last but a moment"

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