To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

为了点出一个寓意，或者点缀一则故事。

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According to Cynthia Pury, a psychologist at Clemson University, Pedeleose's story proves the point that courage is not motivated by fearlessness, but by moral obligation.

克莱姆森大学的心理学家辛西娅·普里认为，派德勒斯的故事证明了一点：勇气并非来自无畏，而是来自道德义务。

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Exemplum are anecdotes that support a moral point.

说教性轶事通常支持道德观点。

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But I want to deal now with a couple of interesting case studies about moral feelings from a psychological point of view.

现在我想讲几个有趣的案例分析,这些案例都是从心理学角度分析道德情感。

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Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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The moral is that reciprocity is friendship and so good, all to the good, but as I say there's a moment of suspense in the expectation at the point in the text when we expect a moral but we don't know what the moral is going to be.

寓意是，相互关爱就是友谊，它如此美好，对双方都有好处，但正如我所说，也有那么一刻，期望面临悬念,在当我们期待一个寓意,却不知道那个寓意将是什么的时候。

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The second, and I agree that this is a moral point, is, well, who cares?

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In accepting the pie metaphor, we concede a moral point that should not be conceded.

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Achieving these goals, Mr Wolfensohn claims, is not only right from a moral point of view.

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