Today the main economic activities of the family are in the nature of consumption-however productive may be what some of its members do in society.

今天，家庭的主要经济活动是消费性的，尽管家庭中有些成员在社会上所干的可能是生产性的。

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In a 1757 essay, the philosopher David Hume argued that because "the general principles of taste are uniform in human nature", the value of some works of art might be essentially permanent.

哲学家大卫·休谟在1757年的一篇文章中谈到，因为人类的审美具有共同性，所以一些艺术作品的价值可能是永恒的。

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In Chinese culture, yin and yang are the two parts of nature.

在中国文化中，阴阳是自然界的两个部分。

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"Obviously missile launches of that nature are unhelpful and potentially destabilizing, and are frowned upon by us and others in the region,".

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That's why people are so excited about embryonic stem cells because in nature they become all the cells of the body.

这就是为什么胚胎干细胞如此让人激动,因为它的天然功能就是变成所有身体细胞

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Ideas like this, as I say, are taken from the aesthetic and practical thinking about the nature of the work of art that one finds in Modernism.

这种观点,来自对,现代主义作品美学和实际的考虑。

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Those provisions are exceedingly modest and many are in the nature of experiments a good choice given how much we still need to learn about delivering cost-effective care.

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There are elements of this that are more in the nature of a political statement than the conventional defense against criminal charges.

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And obviously in these countries there are huge challenges, huge obstacles to the kinds of change that the people in these countries are demanding, to the kinds of governments that are democratic in nature and responsive to the interests of average citizens in these countries.

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