It is usually easier to follow rules of social behaviour than to depend on one's own taste.

遵循社会行为准则通常比依靠自己的品味更容易。

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Asking others' advice instead of getting everything done on one's own promotes democracy and communication too.

征求别人的意见而不是自己完成所有的事情，也能促进民主和交流。

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He chose to lift the stone to drop it on one's own feet.

他选择了搬起石头砸自己的脚。

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"America itself is consuming one third of the world's resources on its own,".

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Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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The city, as Aristotle understands, will always exist in a world with other cities or other states, based on different principles that might be hostile to one's own.

城市，如亚里士多德所认为，将永远会,和其它城市或国家同时存在，根于不同的管理原则,可能还会对自己人怀有敌意。

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On the other hand, the silence of Christmas morning on one's own carries its own unique pain.

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Working in the city and living on one's own land far out in the countryside has always been a goal for many Americans.

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When done well, it frames the debate and puts the enemy irreversibly in the wrong, and casts a good light on one's own actions.

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