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The legislators also chose the Department of Agriculture, more likely to be sympathetic to farmers concerns, rather than the EPA, to be the regulator for approving carbon offsets.
而对立法者来说，他们也会选择更能体谅农民疾苦的农业部，而不是环保局来作为审批碳补偿的管理者。
That means that nearly 40 percent of our nation’s unemployed have gone without jobs for nearly seven months, which means they’d likely not be sympathetic to any of these complaints.
这意味着我们国家，有40%的人失业将近7个月。这同时也意味着他们连得到同情这些抱怨的就会都没有（此句求教各位译友——译者）。
Although they are supposed to be strictly above politics, members of the royal family have for long left their paw marks on politics, and appear to be sympathetic to the yellow shirts.
尽管皇室成员理论上可以参政，但是他们长期不理政务，似乎只是同情黄衣军的样子。
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And they try to exclude those they think will be more sympathetic to the other side.
So, Hobbes clearly believes or thinks that this will be a useful book for a sovereign to read and hoping it will gain the ear of a sympathetic sovereign or potential sovereign.
很明显，霍布斯认为,这对君王将是本很有用的书,并真心希望它能得到一些富有同情心的君王,或是即将接任的君王的欣赏。
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Or there may be positions that I mention, but I don't develop, because I'm not perhaps sympathetic to them, and you might find somebody who is sympathetic to them, developing them in the readings.
或者有时我提到了，但我不展开讲，因为我或许和那些内容无法产生共鸣，而你在阅读中可能会发现,有些人可以与它们产生共鸣，并在书中对它们进行展开讨论。
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"I don't want the American public to be sympathetic to the killers, " she said.
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