The inmates ate in a communal dining room.

同狱室的人在一个公共饭厅吃饭。

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By communal, we mean they reflect the traits and the concerns of a particular community at a particular time.

我们说的“公共”指的是它们反映了特定时期特定群体的特点和关注点。

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After several generations of population growth, people packed the landscape in densities so high that communal pueblos may have been a necessary outcome.

经过几代人的人口增长，人们以如此高的密度挤满了这个地区，以至于公共聚居地的出现可能是一个必要的结果。

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"What kind of a speech they're defending? The kind of speech,the hatred, the communal hatred, that is being spread by Mr.Varun Gandhi,".

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It's kind of like religion by definition is a communal activity and so as what you're trying to do is a lot of... building skills among groups.

可能宗教本身,就是种集体性的活动，你们所做的,也就是培养集体生活的技能。

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I hope it gave you a sense of its communal ethiC as opposed to an individual morality, the idea that the actions of every individual have an impact on society as a whole.

我希望它能给你们一种公共道德感,与个人道德感全然不同，那个观点是,个人的行为都会对作为整体的社会产生影响。

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It has a communal sink, a shower unit and three toilet stalls.

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Above, the extended family lives in a subdivided floor with a communal living space in which a fire burns for cooking by day and heat at night.

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By a communal space, I mean a physical area where members of a community can interact with one another freely and fulfill some kind of common social aim.

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