That is admirable, but surely the right to opt out on moral grounds is fundamental?

这个说法让人尊敬，但是更确定地说，从道德基础上说难道让人有选择的权利不是更为根本、更为重要么？

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He refused to join the army on moral grounds because he thought it was wrong to kill people.

他以道德为依据拒绝参军，因为他认为杀人是不对的。

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On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners.

于是，在道德基础我们赞成把90%的单一所得税退回给它真正的所有者。

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Since her nomination last week, comes this women Sonia Sotomayor has been heavily scrutinized, but not on her possible views concerning abortion,gun control, or any other issue that often divides Americans on political or moral grounds.

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Obviously Tony the Tow Truck points a moral and so would be subject - to a kind of devaluation on those grounds by the New Criticism-- even though there are ways of reading Tony, as I've been suggesting, New Critic-ally.

显然《搬运车托尼》提供了一个道德的标准,新批评派对其,不会有很好的评价-,虽然，我也说过，从新批判派的角度阅读《搬运车托尼》

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