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The tutors work with the students and their parents in order to portray as helpful a picture of the 2 universities as they can.
對這兩所大學感興趣的學生以及他們的家長，可以利用這次機會充分地了解這兩所大學。
Moreover, a vote in 2009 would be hard to portray as a self-interested gambit on Mr Brown’s part: the last general election was in 2005, and four years has been the standard interval under Labour.
另外，2009年的投票很難被認作佈朗自謀私利。上次大選已是2005年的事了，4年對於工黨來說是個標準間隔。
First, in the past the leaders in Beijing could portray themselves as the bulwark against malign local forces.
首先，在過去，北京的領導者們會將自己描繪成反對地方惡勢力的堅強堡壘。

In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.
So why, according to scholars like Sarna, would a biblical author from that period portray the Arameans as close kin, unless they had some older tradition, established tradition that reflected that fact?
因此根據(jù)Sarna一派的學者，爲什麼那段時期的聖經作者,會把亞蘭人描繪成至親呢，除非是他們有相同的古老傳統(tǒng),通過樹立傳統(tǒng)來反映現(xiàn)實嗎？
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But an unwillingness from Russia to investigate such crimes is nothing new, and is therefore harder to portray as a sinister new twist.
ECONOMIST: The European Union and Russia
Their agenda has lately been preoccupied with denouncing and undermining any Bush law-enforcement and homeland security initiatives they can portray as unfair to Muslims.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Islamist power play