Defence officials are obliged to investigate the claims, brought on behalf of Iraqis by a British lawyer, even if they later turn out to be false or motivated by the prospect of compensation.
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3. 她说：“迈克尔·杰克逊不知道这项计划，或者是新闻报道纯属子虚乌有。”
"Michael Jackson is unaware of this project, and news reports stating otherwise are completely erroneous," she said.
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4. 但中国经济依靠出口导向型增长这一流行观点纯属子虚乌有；国内需求其实更为重要。
But the popular notion that China is dependent on export-led growth is a myth; domestic demand is much more important.
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5. 据说他曾一度在瑞士接受过教育，也可能是子虚乌有。
He is thought to have been schooled in Switzerland for a time, or maybe not.
Prosecutors said the two Liberians had sold nearly all of World Vision's food aid; auditors said a third of it was allocated to towns that did not exist.
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7. 对那个不真实的人来说，整个宇宙都是虚伪的——都是难以触摸的，在他的把握之中化为子虚乌有。
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false - it is impalpable - it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.
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8. 极度敏感也可以刺激产生嫉妒，例子是一个人觉察到子虚乌有的针对友谊的威胁。
Extreme sensitivity can also contribute to jealousy in instances where a person perceives a threat to the relationship when there's no threat present.
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9. 很多人认为子虚乌有的大规模杀伤武器也不过是一个幌子。
Many think the non-existent weapons of mass destruction were a pretext, too.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if a large proportion of surgical practice is based on thin air, and [claims for effectiveness] would evaporate if we studied them closely, ” Ioannidis says.
While some Microsoft conspiracy theories may have some merit (European courts say so), this one either doesn't or has already been vanquished by a couple of articles on the web.
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13. 这个人类延续研究所纯粹是子虚乌有。
The Institute of Human Continuity is not real.
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14. 这是一批运往尼日利亚的货物，据说出自于奈落比子虚乌有的两个大使馆内。
The shipment was bound for Nigeria, purportedly from two embassies in Nairobi that do not exist.
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15. 人们对隐私的兴趣其实是子虚乌有的。
It's a myth that people are interested in privacy.
And no less an authority than Stephen Hawking asserted this spring that he believes intelligent species almost certainly exist (and should probably be avoided).
Argleton, a "phantom town" in Lancashire, the UK, that appears on Google Maps but doesn't actually exist, has puzzled Internet experts, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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22. 这些当然只是人们的幽默和子虚乌有。
This is all humbug and good humor, of course.
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23. 有些报道说我曾经在伯纳乌与皇马商谈此事，这纯属子虚乌有。
There have been reports that I have been at the Bernabeu negotiating with Madrid but that is false.
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24. 面对子虚乌有的诽谤我感到很苦恼。
I felt quite distressed at being untruthfully slandered.
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25. 如果宇宙不是受造精密得无以复加的话，我们压根儿就是子虚乌有的了。
If the Universe had not been made the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence.
Xie's father, in an interview, referring to abortion, said untrue, Cecilia Cheung is not in fact pregnant, his face because of the rash caused by the hot greedy.
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27. 没有实践，但愿会子虚乌有。
Without practice, hopes will be reduced to zero.
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28. 所谓“罗泉井会议”纯系子虚乌有，其历史意义亦属无中生有。
The so-called Zizhou Luoquanjing Meeting does not exist in history, not to speak of its historical significance.
If you're a banker and you generate big short-term profits you get lavishly rewarded - and you don't have to give the money back if and when those profits turn out to have been a mirage.
If you're a banker and you generate big short-term profits you get lavishly rewarded - and you don't have to give the money back if and when those profits turn out to have been a mirage.
