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Precisely
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
我不能确切地说，是谁提出了石器时代家庭的概念。
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
隔阂恰恰表现在人与人之间距离的消除上。
It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
洋葱切得多精确并不重要，只要咀嚼它的人很开心。
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
斯特拉文斯基很高明:他的和声构思得如此精确，以至于只能是这样。
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
在监狱里，那些被扣留和拒绝给囚犯的东西正是他最想要的。
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
他们可能不需要我;但他们可能。我要让我的头就在眼前;像我这样微不足道的微笑也许正是他们所需要的。
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
在华尔街，他和其他一些人——有多少人?三百，四百，五百?恰恰变成了……宇宙的主人。
There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.
当然，欧洲有一个中央银行，它的结构类似于联邦储备系统，虽然不完全相同，但很相似。
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
我的想法是做一个真正严肃的大工程——就像一本小说一样，只有一点不同:它的每一个字从头到尾都是真实的。
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
我们所观察的宇宙，如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善，只有盲目、无情的冷漠，那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
刚当上父亲的人很快就会发现，他的孩子总是在他上厕所的准确时间来上厕所，好像他需要有人陪着一样。对这位父亲来说，确保浴室隐私的唯一方法就是在加油站刮胡子。
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
如果我们要在未来几年安全地谈判，我们可能需要一种新的领导。更准确地说，我们需要重新发现一种古老的领导层，这种领导层很少得到应有的重视。我的意思是作为老师的领导。
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I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
我并不假装确切知道那里有什么;但我认为，很明显，在这个国家和这个机构之间存在着一种非常自由的交流，除非我大错特错，否则我看到的是侏儒媒介，通过它，这种交流得以保持。