While good documentation has no substitute, you can offset its absence by having the ability to navigate the process in an abstract fashion.

好的文档是无法取代的，如果没有这样的文档，只要能用一种抽象的方式浏览整个过程，那么也可以抵消一些负面影响。

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An abstract class is good as well.

抽象类的方式也很好。

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One group thought about why we need to maintain good relationships (abstract, high-level) while the other focused on how we maintain good relationships (concrete, low-level).

其中的一组思考的是为什么我们需要保持良好的人际关系(一般性，高层次的)，而另一组则关注于如何保持良好的人际关系(具体，低层次的)。

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If something is good just because it is pleasurable, what does it matter whether you have sort of an abstract idea of whether it is good by someone else's sense or not?

既然令人喜爱的事物就是好的，那么何必在乎,别人对它的感受如何，这般抽象的观念呢？

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Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

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That defense actually sounds pretty good in the abstract.

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Perusing the five-star reviews in Perfumes, it seems that a good perfume is surprising, individual, abstract, witty, maybe ironic, complex (for example, Thierry Mugler's Angel perfume works because of the juxtaposition of cotton candy and flowers with a masculine patchouli), long-lasting, transformative (it somehow makes the wearer feel different).

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For one thing, mirror neurons are good for representing actions--which, in an abstract way, is what sentences do.

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