But campaigners have criticised the rules for merely patching up the existing system, although businesses say they have a greater degree of consensus than initially expected.

但是，活动人士批评这些规则只是对现有税收体系进行修补，尽管企业称，它们具有比最初预计更高程度的共识。

That some 100,000 Russian war veterans do not even have flats took second place to a show that cost an estimated 3 billion roubles ($94m), half of it for patching up the road surfaces it damaged.

大约十万名甚至连公寓都没有的俄国老兵（的需求）让位于这场估计耗资三十亿卢布（合9400万美元）的展示活动，耗费的资金有一半是为了修补在活动中受损的路面。

Humour can be used for patching up differences, apologizing, saying 「no」, criticizing, getting the other fellow to do what you want without his losing face.

幽默可以用来消除隔阂、致以歉意，有礼拒绝，诚恳批评，让别人按照你的意愿行事而又不丢面子。

After nearly 40 years of patching up the folks of this town, I'm planning to retire and move to Florida.

为本城父老乡亲医伤诊病近四十年后，现在，我打算退休，并迁居弗罗里达。

For patching up my broken heart, and I would shut my aching eyes.

修复我那破碎的心，闭上那让我心痛的眼睛。

By the time Qaddafi renounced the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in 2004, the international community was eager to begin patching up relations.

卡扎菲于2004年放弃对大规模杀伤性武器的追求，并迫切希望和国际社会修复关系。

「We are just patching up the old system,」 he says. 「Why are they in such a hurry?」

我们只不过是在旧体制上修修补补而已。「他说到，」为什么他们要如此仓促呢？

Those imaginary characters were mainly females, indeed, yet what they brought me was mostly patching up the ruptures, or understanding, or relief.

那些假想的人儿确是女性为主，给我的感觉却多是冰释前嫌，是理解，是释怀。

Meanwhile, 「We have conducted mass production when other enterprises are still patching up their exhibition model, 」 said Thomas Webber, director of the research department of Daimler.

与此同时，戴姆勒公司研发部门负责人托马斯-韦伯说：「当其它企业还在对展览车型进行修修补补的时候，我们已经批量生产。」

While the public anger directed at Japan is more restrained than in 2005, patching up diplomatic relations yet again might not be as easy as before.

虽然针对日本的公愤比2005年更为克制，但再度修复外交关系可能不会像以前那么容易。