give an order

基本解释

If you give an order today, I'll deliver them at the price in my proposal, not a cent more.
如果你们今天向我下单，我会照提出的价格送货，绝对不多收一分钱。
That's nothing. My fa-ther can even give an order to the President to bow his head and sit still.
那有什么了不起的，我爸爸甚至能命令总统低头，让他纹丝不动地坐着。
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Yet, in a day when few noble persons ever spoke to those of humble origins except to give an order, Jefferson went out of his way to talk with gardeners, servants, and waiters.
然而，在那个贵族除了发号施令以外很少跟出身卑贱的人说话的年代，杰斐逊却想尽办法跟园丁、仆人和侍者交谈。

Milton is narrating or representing the process by which they are silenced. They're rendered speechless or dumb, and the poem effects this process in order to give someone else an opportunity to speak.
弥尔顿在叙述或描绘这个,他们缄默的过程，他们都变得沉默或哑巴了，同时诗歌也影响了这个过程,为了使另外某个人有机会开口说话。
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So the mad scientist explains all of this to you, but in order to give it a little kicker, because he's also an evil mad scientist-- that may be evil already,but because he's an evil mad scientist-- he says,And then when I'm done-- So over here we've got Shelly's body but Linda's personality.
于是疯狂科学家向你解释这一切，但为了增加一点戏剧性，因为他同时是个邪恶的疯狂科学家-,因为他是既邪恶又疯狂的科学家-,他说，当我完成之后…,这是Shelly的肉体和Linda的人格。
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When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
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Yet unlike today, the colonial system evolved so that once indentured servants arrived in the new world, they usually had up to 30 days for their contracts to be bought out by a family member, friend, or someone willing to give an advance in order to hire them for their services.
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