Language is an instrument for communication.

语言是交际的工具。

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The astrolabe had long been the primary instrument for navigation, having been introduced in the eleventh century.

自11世纪星盘被引入以来，它一直都是航海的重要工具。

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The law is not the best instrument for dealing with family matters.

法律并不是处理家庭问题的最佳方法。

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He showed that simple American English could be as fine an instrument for great writing as more complex language.

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Add to the above Hobbes' repeated insistence that law serve as an instrument for achieving social equality.

除此之外,霍布斯坚决主张,法律应当是维护社会公平和平等的工具。

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The similes are for him instrument in the poem's larger agenda to reinforce our faith in the coexistence of free will and divine providence -- difficult, huge concepts.

这些比喻在这首诗更深的议程中是作为工具,来深化我们对自由意志和神圣天命的共存,所持的信念--这是两个艰深宏大的概念。

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The government denies that the IPS is a faulty instrument for measuring its progress on migration.

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But the law is, at best, a blunt and unpredictable instrument for disciplining bosses.

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Peter Beare, another of the firm's directors, has made an instrument for Nigel Kennedy, among others.

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