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1. In a last-minute climbdown, the Chinese government announced today that it will delay the launch of censorship software that was supposed to have been sold in every computer from tomorrow.

中国政府在最后关头做出了退让。它于今天宣布,原定于从明天开始在每台计算机上安装审查软件的行动将推迟。

2. An official at the Chinese mission in Geneva denied that the agreement represented a total climbdown by China.

中国驻日内瓦代表团的一位官员否认此次协议代表着中国的全面退让。

3. The Chinese climbdown offers a first glimpse of the netizens hitting back.

从中国的退让中,人们第一次见识了网民的回击。

4. It was only a partial climbdown, however, as the film board insisted that the scenes in question were "nothing other than straightforward urination masquerading as ejaculation".

但这仅仅只是部分的妥协,因为电影委员会坚持认为被删的镜头“根本就是在小便,但却装得跟‘射精’似的”。

5. On the one hand, McClaren is acutely aware that a recall would be an embarrassing climbdown but, on the other, he knows it would be a popular decision.

另一方面,麦柯拉伦知道召回他会很尴尬,但是他知道这会是一个受欢迎的决定。

6. Everton have been forced into an embarrassing climbdown after their website claimed they had agreed a deal for Juan Roman Riquelme.

在官网上声明已签下里克尔梅后,埃弗顿面临着两难的境地。

7. It is a humiliating climbdown for a country that, until a few months ago, imported Polish workers to do its grimy jobs.

对于一个直到数月前还在引进波兰工人干脏活的国家来说,这是一种令人屈辱的倒退。

8. A sensible compromise, or a chaotic climbdown? The inquiry will not report until after the next election. But it has already embarrassed the prime minister.

布朗很快作出反应,将计就计,给予了调查小组更多的自主权。他还请求那些失去了亲人的家庭好好琢磨一下,宣誓证言是否真的有必要。

9. The remarks follow an earlier, but still ambiguous, climbdown by Mr Li's ministry.

早些时候,工信部曾做出模棱两可的让步。

10. The next day, however, Mr Kibaki responded with apparent contempt to Mr Odinga's climbdown by unilaterally appointing 17 cabinet ministers.

然而,齐贝吉在第二天对奥廷加的让步表现出明显的轻蔑,他竟单方面地任命了17位内阁部长。

11. If there is any logic to Mr Ozawa's climbdown, it is that the public is indifferent to the refuelling debate.

若要对小泽这次的隐忍做出合理解释,那就是公众对于燃油案的冷漠。

12. When the charges were formally set this week as suspicion of commercial crimes, it marked a significant climbdown by Chinese authorities.

随着本周正式将此案确定为涉嫌窃取商业机密的犯罪,这标志着中国有关部门的立场后退了一大步。

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