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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.
“我们看不到在盗版率和价格之间有任何的联系，”他引用该公司自己的定价试验说：“我认为这是一道谣言”。
He immediately deploys the counter-argument – citing "the historical responsibility of industrialised nations for all the carbon already in the air".
他立刻展开相反的辩论——引证“工业化国家对已经存在于大气中的所有碳负有历史责任”。
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.
拉德斯托克引用了大量坚持认为精神错乱与梦具有相似性的观点来开启对这一课题研究的篇章。

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.
但是通过指出这她称之为清教徒式的妖言的力量，佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫的确突然间向人们展示了，我想，即使是她，想要完全抵御弥尔顿的切实存在的力量,-也有可能仅仅是蛊惑人的妖言--是非常困难的。
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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.
NPR: Poll: Rural Voters Not Reliably Republican in 2008

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.