The research shows that preschool children are capable of thinking in abstract terms.

研究表明，学龄前儿童具有抽象思维的能力。

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And not in abstract terms, either.

还不是在抽象的层面。

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Unlike other creatures, humans define the groups to which they belong in abstract terms.

和其他的生物不同，人们通过一些抽象的术语来定义他们所属的种群。

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You hear about it in various terms that sound abstract.

你们会对风险管理的抽象语汇有所耳闻。

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There's a clear tendency in this story towards monotheism in the abstract terms that Kaufman described.

这里有明显的一神论倾向,在Kaufman言辞抽象的表述中。

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Interestingly, the prosecutor and magistrate today both raised, in abstract terms, the possibility of the charges against Oscar Pistorius being reduced from murder to culpable homicide - something which could mean a fine or suspended sentence rather than a long jail term.

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When Wilde wrote that all excess as well as all renunciation brings its punishment, he evidently had in mind the contrast between Basil, who can conceive of his love for Dorian only in abstract terms, and Dorian, who is so intent on embracing the physical that he loses his mind.

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Nobody will believe that she was reflecting in abstract philosophical terms on the century's history.

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