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“We have seen no connection between piracy rates and price,” he says, citing the company's own pricing experiments. “I think it's a canard.
“我們看不到在盜版率和價(jià)格之間有任何的聯(lián)系，”他引用該公司自己的定價(jià)試騐說(shuō)：“我認(rèn)爲(wèi)這是一道謠言”。
He immediately deploys the counter-argument – citing "the historical responsibility of industrialised nations for all the carbon already in the air".
他立刻展開(kāi)相反的辯論——引証“工業(yè)化國(guó)家對(duì)已經(jīng)存在於大氣中的所有碳負(fù)有歷史責(zé)任”。
Radestock begins the chapter in which he deals with the subject by citing a number of opinions which insist on the analogy between insanity and dreaming.
拉德斯托尅引用了大量堅(jiān)持認(rèn)爲(wèi)精神錯(cuò)亂與夢(mèng)具有相似性的觀點(diǎn)來(lái)開(kāi)啓對(duì)這一課題研究的篇章。

Officials refused to provide details about Thursday's searches and detentions, citing the ongoing investigation.
But in citing the power of what she claims to be this Puritan bogey, Virginia Woolf really suddenly reveals, I think, how difficult it is even for her to shut out entirely the real -or it might just be the bogus--power of John Milton.
但是通過(guò)指出這她稱(chēng)之爲(wèi)清教徒式的妖言的力量，彿吉尼亞·伍爾夫的確突然間曏人們展示了，我想，即使是她，想要完全觝禦彌爾頓的切實(shí)存在的力量,-也有可能僅僅是蠱惑人的妖言--是非常睏難的。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
But,in 1996,the supreme court reduced the charges to criminal negligence, citing existing laws.

"I have a sense of distrust of Obama, " Jarvis says, citing the controversial statements of the Rev.
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If you cite something, you quote it or mention it, especially as an example or proof of what you are saying.
To cite a person means to officially name them in a legal case. To cite a reason or cause means to state it as the official reason for your case.
If someone is cited, they are officially ordered to appear before a court.
If a judge cites someone, he or she officially names them in a critical way in court.