I thought of it only as being practical.

我只是认为这是出于实际的需要。

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How dare you say so? Just being practical.

你怎敢这样说？我只是照实说而已。

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The stats don’t lie. This is about being practical.

这个开始不会给人假象，这是一种实际的做法。

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But the environmental waste expert concedes that for the time being, landfills are the only practical option.

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There's very much economic consideration going on, and women just being very practical.

经济的考虑会大量地卷入其中，也有的女性只是很实际。

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The natural laws for Hobbes are not divine commands or ordinances, he says, but they are rules of practical reason figured out by us as the optimal means of securing our well-being.

对霍布斯来说，自然法不是神圣的法令,或者条例，但这些是,我们发现的实践理性的法则,就像一种最佳的方式保护我们的幸福生活。

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Hopefully ego has not gotten in the way of being practical.

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And, look, that works in a number of places, but I did not see that being practical to help right away for people who really need it.

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Another laser that came close to being practical enough to use was the Tactical High Energy Laser, also known as the Nautilus laser (pictured above), which was designed to shoot down incoming artillery rounds.

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