Expressive ties are social links formed when we emotionally invest ourselves in and commit ourselves to other people.

情感纽带是一种在我们投入自己的感情，并且将我们的感情托付给他人时所形成的社会联系。

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It is to commit ourselves to what rational people like us!

这是致力于理性的人们什么和我们一样！

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It is to commit ourselves to what rational people (like us!) think an absurdity, an impossibility.

这是致力于理性的人们什么(和我们一样！)想荒唐，是不可能的事。

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And above all, we commit ourselves to serving them as well as they have served us.

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We commit ourselves to one another and to holding ourselves collectively accountable for the strength of our society.

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"We did not solicit the material, not pay for it, nor commit ourselves to publish it, " the Economist said.

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