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Charities and churches are also trying to catch people that fall through the flimsy government safety net.

慈善机构和教堂也在努力帮助单薄的政府保障网络下的漏网之民。

But then, he had death living with him inside his flimsy little shirt already. Hard to see how it would matter if death came any closer.

不过，死神早已在他脆弱的身体里游弋，就算它走得更近，那又有何重要？

One would replace the flimsy "fair comment" defence (which easily gets tied up in questions of fact) with a new one of "honest opinion" .

其中之一就是把软弱无力的“公允评论”辩护（这很容易被对真实性的质疑所束缚）替换成新的“坦诚意见”辩护。

My guess was that Clarissa would not be back before midnight, so I abandoned myself to my serious, flimsy argument.

我猜想，克拉莉莎在午夜之前不会回来，于是我便沉溺在那严肃而肤浅的论点之中。

These screens look pretty flimsy and like they would fall down in an instant, yet none of them were messed up at all.

这些幕布看起来脆弱无比，就像立马就会倒塌似的。可是，它们却丝毫无损。

It was a flimsy excuse, but there was some kind of logic to it, since the US had never signed the 2001 agreement.

这个借口站不住脚，但确实多多少少说得通，因为美国从来没有签署2001年的协议。

This most visceral and ritual of actions tends to be mediated through a flimsy, poorly conceived amalgam of shapes.

这种最发自肺腑、最具仪式性动作的含义却经常因为一个轻薄且设计很差的各种形状的结合体而打折。

A previous study found that people thought water tasted worse if they drank it out of a flimsy cup, Ackerman pointed out.

Ackerman指出，之前的一项研究发现，如果用不结实的杯子喝水，人们会觉得水难喝一些。

That sounds a bit like the notoriously flimsy defence of "only obeying orders" which goes down especially badly with Germans.

这与“仅仅在服从命令”的辩护一样臭名昭著，不堪一击，尤其难以让德国人接受。

Britain's self- image as a so- called pocket- superpower has long been a flimsy conceit ; now it will have still smaller pockets .

英国作为所谓“袖珍超级大国”的自身形象长期以来一直是在自欺欺人；如今又得把裤腰带再扎紧点了。

The aim was to avoid a repeat of the summer of 1994, when tens of thousands of Cubans took to the sea in flimsy boats.

这样做的目的是为了避免重蹈1994年夏的覆辙。那时候上万古巴人就搭乘着弱不禁风的各式船只驶向大海。

Studies show that "bad pals" can be a bad influence particularly if your child has a weaker relationship with a parent or a flimsy identity.

研究表明如果你的孩子同父母的关系不太和谐或者容易被别人带坏，那么“不好的伙伴”会对他有不良的影响。

No matter that the case is flimsy: the court has already declared the key elements of the treaty "not at odds" with the Czech constitution.

无论阻挡的力道多么薄弱︰宪法法院已宣布里斯本条约的关键元素与捷克宪法「并不冲突」。

And Mr Cameron has shown that his commitment to recasting the state as an enabler and a regulator rather than a monopoly provider is flimsy.

卡梅伦先生暴露出他重铸国家为授权者和仲裁者而不是垄断供应商的承诺是脆弱的。

"We, in the scientific community, often give strong advice based on flimsy evidence, " he said. "That's why we have to do experiments. "

“在科学界我们通常用强有力的证据说话”他说，“这就是为什么我们必须做的实验的原因”。

It also comes with a 4GB memory support and a flimsy 3MP camera. It surely could have been better than just 3MP.

它还具备了4GB的内存支持和一个超薄的300万像素的摄像头，其实它在像素的方面还可以做得更好。

Hundreds of migrants have died in the past few months trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in flimsy boats.

在前几个月数艘偷渡船在地中海沉没，数百移民死亡。

I would scrawl my name on the cards and the name of one of my classmates on each flimsy envelope.

我在每张贺卡上面潦草地写上自己的名字，并且在每个薄薄的信封上写上一个同学的名字。

She had made the table herself out of a box, covering it with flimsy figured sateen, hanging a fifty-cent mirror above it.

梳妆台是她自己用一个箱子做的，外面蒙了一层薄薄的缎布，上面还挂了一面用五十美分买回来的镜子。

The switches in the 2011 Jetta felt flimsy; part of an air-conditioning vent fell off.

2011捷达的开关感觉很轻薄，空调开口部分有冲击感。