Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem.媒体大量地报道这些事件只会使问题持续下去.In my view, it only perpetuates the very problem that it sets out to cure.在我看来，这只会使要着手解决的问题一再拖延下去。Lack of water perpetuates ...

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v.使永存（ perpetuate的第三人称 ），使持续...