You can see ramifications of arguments of this sort for environmentalism as well as for ethnography.

你可以看到这种论点的,环境主义分叉，或者是人种学分叉。

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The highway forked off on to a clay road and he turned on to it.

高速公路在此分叉了，他选择了那条泥路。

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Now this isn't the first time in this course that I've paused over a moment at a crossroads where you can't possibly take both paths but where it is obviously very, very difficult to make up one's mind.

现在是这个课程中第一次,在一个分叉路口停下,我们不可能同时走两条路,但是这也显然是非常难以决定的一个地方。

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