1: The secret in Thompson’s background—and source of many of the conspiracy theories—was of the spooky variety. 2: He was an agent for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, posted to South-East Asia at the end of the second world war. 3: He befriended anti-colonial forces in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. [...]114: This was both a personal inclination and his mandate as a spy. 5: The organisation, according to Richard Harris Smith, its biographer, had some “recurrent themes: democratic, social, progressive reform”.

1:关于汤普森身世中的秘密——即多种阴谋论的来源——众说纷纭，其版本之多令人诧异。2:他曾是美国战略情报局（中央情报局前身）的间谍，在二战末期被派往东南亚。3:他支援过泰国、柬埔寨、老挝及越南的反殖民武装力量。[...]114:这既是他的个人喜好，也是作为一个间谍的职责。5:其传记作者理查德?哈里斯?史密斯说，“民主的、社会的、渐进式改革”是在这个组织中反复出现的一些主题。

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1: If there was a fall, it would ripple. 2: Technology investors, which have a higher concentration of Apple in their portfolios, are the most vulnerable. 3: Apple makes up more than 18% of PowerShares QQQ, an exchange-traded fund with heavy exposure to technology stocks, for example. [...]114: More unsettling are funds that have strayed into buying Apple against their mandate , including some mutual funds that are supposed to focus on smaller companies. 5: “If Apple has a wobble, you could see it dictate broader market movements,” says Alec Levine of Newedge, a broker.

1:如果苹果股价下跌，其将会产生连锁反应。2:重仓持有苹果股票的科技型投资者最容易受到影响。3: 例如，交易所基金PowerShares QQQ重仓持有科技股，其中苹果比重超过了18%。 [...]114:那些违背委托意愿而购买苹果股票的基金对股价下降更会心神不宁，这其中包括一些本应投资于小型企业的共同基金。5: 新际集团的经纪人Alec Levine说：“如果苹果的股价产生波动的话，它将引起整个市场范围的波动。”

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1: So the empirical evidence is mixed. But it does not support the view that the law is an elite game, fixed to serve the interests of the rich and educated. 2: When the authors aggregate their national studies, they conclude that 55% of the benefits that flow from the various legal decisions accrue to the poorest 40%. 3: Such calculations are, inevitably, rough and ready. Ideally, one should compare the costs and benefits of going to law with those of pursuing the same policy objectives in parliament—which is hard to measure. 4: It is also an open question whether a “right to food”—ie, an obligation for someone else to provide it—is the best way to help the poor. 5: A targeted cash-transfer programme, which makes welfare payments conditional on recipients' actions, may work better. [...]116: More broadly, it is far from clear that society as whole benefits when unelected judges mandate potentially costly social spending. 7: That said, the study is still a revelation: courts are more majestic than decades of received wisdom have suggested.

1:实际的研究结果喜忧参半，但是足以反驳这样一种传统观点：法律是精英们掌控的游戏，服务于富人和接受过良好教育的人的利益。2: Daniel Brinks和Varun Gauri将各国的研究结果进行综合后发现，新兴市场国家中55%的法律利益由最穷的40%人口获得。 3:当然，这样的计算方式不可避免地有些粗糙，更为理想的办法是对比诉诸法律和通过议会达成同样政策目标的成本、收益。然而，后者的相关成本收益很难进行衡量。4:另外，像“食物权”这类对其他人规定提供商品或服务义务的法案，是否是帮助穷人的最好办法?这也值得深入思考的问题。5:或许，根据接受者行为进行有条件福利支付的定向现金转移支付计划效果会更好。[...]116:从更广泛的意义上讲，让并非通过选举产生的法官强制要求政府采用成本高昂的社会支出对社会整体来说是否有益，这一问题也没有明确的答案。7:即便如此，这项研究还是很好地说明了现实中法院的形象比长期以来人们传统思维中的更为崇高。

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But the government is scared to sign many such contracts because its mandate is temporary—a new constitution and elections are due next year.

但利比亚政府却不敢签这个单子，因为此政府只是个临时政府，而新宪法和选举要到明年才出来。

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In a series of vitrines in the same room, Baha Boukhari, a Ramallah-based cartoonist, shows the passports issued to his father under the British mandate in Palestine. Many of the artworks incorporate objects and documents found in historical archives. Contemporary art in 2011 has a distinctly vintage feel.

在同一间房子里还摆放着一系列的玻璃橱窗，拉马拉籍卡托画家巴哈布克汗展示了英国在巴勒斯坦发行给父亲的护照。许多艺术作品都把就档案里找到的物品和文件组合在一起。2011年的当代艺术别有一番怀旧风味。

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"Without hesitation or question, " she added, the decisions about the plant and about the mandate legislation "were completely separate. "

“毫无疑问，”她补充道，有关于药厂的决定和法律的规定“完全不相关。”

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In 1910 he was named director of the SPI(Indian Protection Service) and given a mandate to integrate Indians into Brazilian culture.

1910年，罗德元帅被任命为印第安保护组织（SPI）总指挥，并授权他帮助印第安人融入当地的巴西文化。

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Consistent with its statutory mandate , the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability.

FOMC遵照其法定使命，力图促进就业和物价在最大程度上保持稳定。

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As this article goes to press, the Ohio Board ofEducation is debating whether to mandate such a change.

本文将要发表时，俄亥俄州教育委员会正在争论是否要做采取这种措施。

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For example, low-profit limited liability companies would help remove market pressures from news operations and mandate public service.

比如，成为低利润有限公司将有助于减少新闻采编的市场压力，并服务公众。

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Clinton's effort to mandate school uniforms, for example, became emblematic of what liberals derided as presidential tinkering.

比如，克林顿曾推行强制性校服政策，这是被自由派人士嘲笑为“总统的修修补补”的标志性事件。

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She has after all a mandate that transcends the influence of her brother.

毕竟，她之所以得到授权并非仅仅因为她哥哥的影响力。

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Not surprisingly, since the ethanol mandate was enacted five years ago, the ethanol industry's corn consumption has tripled.

不要惊讶，从这项乙醇政策5年前颁布至今，乙醇工业的玉米消耗量已经增加了三倍。

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Sceptics say China is unlikely to mandate the use of new fuel technologies so early in the development of its car industry.

持有怀疑态度的人说，中国不可能在汽车产业发展的前期阶段使用新燃料技术。

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But a strongly enforced open-access mandate for state- and charity-funded research would spur them to do more.

但对国家或慈善机构资助的研究实施更强有力的强制措施以开放获取资源将会鞭策这些期刊出版社们做得更好。

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But suppose that Congress were to mandate gradually tightening emission limits, starting two or three years from now.

但是，假设国会颁布法令，要求从现在起2年或3年之后，开始逐渐收紧排放限制，又会如何？

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But they, unlike doctors and nurses, weren't under any sort of ethical or professional mandate to be kind.

但是，他们不象医生和护士，没有任何道德或专业的任务排序来样。

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Such a mandate is, of course, simply a disguised tax on employment.

当然，这样一种机制其实就是一种披着外衣的雇佣税。

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As they confiscated property and income, they claimed to be doing it "for the general welfare" and by "a mandate from the people. "

当他们掠夺财产和收入是，他们声称这样做的原因是为了“共同富裕”，而且这也是“人民群众的愿望。”

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It is only in 2008 that the drive for expense integration has moved from program priority to strategic mandate .

到了2008年，对差旅支出整合的推动才真正从优先计划转变为战略法令。

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Third, it means that the mandate to believe and to proclaim the gospel to every person is all the more urgent.

第三，这意味着相信福音，向所有的人宣讲福音的使命，是更加迫切了。

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With restrictions on individual freedom already so tightly monitored, the Chinese appear weary to have one more government mandate imposed.

对个人自由的限制本来就相当严格，中国人似乎很反感再强加一条政令。

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Russia suggested Nato was exceeding its UN Security Council mandate to protect civilians.

俄国表示为了保护平民北约正在超出联合国安理会的授权范围。

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Anyone who objects to this utopian mandate , they maintain, is just making an excuse for low expectations and bad teachers.

而且他们也断言，那些反对这项乌托邦式法令的人只是在为低期望值和坏老师找借口。

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The challengers insisted that the mandate would bring a "revolution in the relationship between the central government and the governed" .

法案的反对者坚称这项强制法令将彻底改变中央政府和被统治者之间的关系。

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This problem, according to the reformers, calls for another solution: a mandate requiring people to buy health insurance.

改革者们认为，这个问题要求另外一个解决方案：命令每个人都购买健康保险。

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The true length of the mandate it gives national governments is shorter than it once was.

给国家政府的真正的管理时间比以前缩短了。

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Furthermore, the administration exceeded the mandate of theresolution by providing the rebels with air cover.

更进一步，白宫越过了决议的授权范围，向叛军提供了空中掩护。

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Republican leaders like to claim that the midterms gave them a mandate for sharp cuts in government spending.

共和党领导人喜欢声称中期选举授权他们削减政府开支。

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Mandate that monthly statements clearly show how long it would take to pay down your balance by paying the minimum.

规定每月报表要清楚地标明以最低额度还款到收支平衡需要还款多久。

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