在一定意义上，它已经起作用了。

In a sense, it has already worked.

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还有叶芝，他们在一定意义上来说都是国际的。

There's Yeats, too. All of them are in a sense internationals.

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在一定意义上，雷曼的不幸是没有将难题更早的提出来。

In a sense, Lehman's misfortune was not to have hit trouble earlier.

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A Christmas tree, in other words, is a sign that can only be understood intelligibly in terms of a certain cultural understanding.

也就是说，它仅仅用于，也仅仅在一定的文化背景中,才能有意义，被理解。

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Hobbes regarded these passions in many ways as barbaric, as uncivilized and warlike and to some degree he was right.

霍布斯把这些人具有的品质称之为,野蛮的，未开化的和好战的,他的这一论断只有在一定意义上是正确的。

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The literary creator starts to seem a lot more like the divine creator, that is to say, and in a certain sense could be understood as a placeholder for the divine creator.

这些作者越来越被神化了，换句话说，在一定意义上,就被理解为神圣造物主的预留的位置。

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