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At this point Newt Gingrich is what passes for a sober, reasonable elder statesman of the G.

在这一点上，金里奇先生可以称为共和党内头脑清醒、行为理智的元老。

What passes for a government is protected by an African Union peacekeeping force guarding the presidential palace.

所谓的政府只不过是由非洲联盟维和部队保卫着的总统府。

But then my colleague pointed out that last year, we got press passes for free anyway which somehow makes it a bit less of an achievement.

但是我的同事告诉我去年有新闻工作者免费去那里的消息后，我便少了些许成就感。

First, they would be teaching systems thinking, not the mathematical modelling that passes for it today.

首先，他们将教授如何系统思考的方法，而不是令人眼花缭乱的数学模型。

So much of what passes for wisdom is wrong. What piece of contrary advice would you offer?

许多智慧都是不正确的，对哪一条你会提出相反地意见？。

So much of what passes for wisdom is wrong. What piece of contrary advice?

许多智慧是错误的。有没有相反的建议呢？。

That said, "Hillary: the Movie" is no duller or more biased than much of what passes for journalism these days.

有人说，比起现在的新闻界，“希拉里：大电影”并不显得更为无聊或持有偏见。

So much of what passes for wisdom is wrong. What piece of contrary advice can you offer?

有太多的智慧是错误的，你能给出哪一条相反的建议？。

Priority passes for the autograph would be signed first, only if there's extra time, will we sign those albums without priority passes.

凡是拥有优先证的朋友﹐都可以先签到名。若有多余的时间﹐过后才会签那些没有优先证的专辑。

Wang Quansheng gestures through the midday murk of what passes for a sunny day in Tangshan , the heavily polluted steel capital of China .

王全胜在正午的昏暗中打着手势，在唐山，这就算是个晴天了。唐山是污染严重的中国钢铁之都。

At least, it can demonstrably make lots and lots and lots of money, which passes for respectable these days.

至少大家眼见着它赚很多很多很多钱——正是现在“体面”的标志。

At the moment, what passes for genetic engineering is mere pottering.

到那个时候，遗传工程就只是一个手工活而已。

The layout system completes two passes for each child member in a collection: a measure pass, and an arrange pass.

配置系统会针对集合中的每个子成员完成两个传递：测量传递和排列传递。

Which brings me back to what passes for budget debate in Washington these days.

这都让我联想到了华盛顿近日来的预算案辩论。

Humphys' book laments the growth of " cliched , dumbed-down, inflated and bogus management-speak" which he says now passes for English.

汉弗莱斯的这本书表达了作者对“陈腐愚蠢、夸张虚伪的官腔语言”滋生的悲叹，而这种语言现在（居然）被称为英语。

Even that which passes for innocent family fare is serving the purposes of Satan's artfully structured campaign against truth.

即使是那被看为无害的家常便饭之事，也正服务于撒旦狡诈地组织反对真理之活动的目的。

Ditto for most of the other differences between startups and what passes for productivity in big companies.

还有很多创业公司和大公司中的差别。

RFID technology is also widely used in wireless toll passes for bridges and tunnels and in contactless travel passes.

RFID技术同业也应用在无线收税关口和桥梁、隧道的无人收费路口中。

From the council office, we embarked on what passes for an embed with the Iraqi army.

在议会办公室我们把自己装扮成了伊拉克部队的随军人员。

Four wheel drive vehicle has better cross-country performance than two wheel drive vehicle. So it usually passes for SUV.

四轮驱动汽车与二轮驱动汽车相比具有更好的越野性能，因此，通常也被称为越野车。