Intellectually we agree about the absurdity of communal contention, but very few of us care to sit down and think out the whole issue and discover the contributory causes.

在认识上，我们同意地方矛盾是很荒谬的，但是极少人愿意坐下来，思想整个问题，发现造成问题的原因。

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Over the past decade, viruses and even certain bacterial infections have become far more accepted as contributory causes for particular types of cancer.

BBC: vaccine