At the heart of the Kyoto protocol is the simple principle that the industrialised world bears the legal responsibility for global warming and that poor countries will suffer most of its consequences.

《京都议定书》的核心是一个简单的原理：工业化国家承担全球变暖的法律责任，贫穷国家将遭受其后果的最大折磨。

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Because of the way people move up the ladder in the corporate world. The general principle is: you don't get promoted, you get elected.

因为在企业世界里，员工向上爬的主要原则是：如果您不是靠升职爬上去，那你一定是被选中的。

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Whether in the physical world or in our minds, this principle stands.

无论在现实世界中还是在我们的头脑里，这个规律都成立。

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And it works on the principle of trying to figure out how to make your way through the world, how to satisfy your pleasures or, in some cases, how to give up on them.

它试图在现实中找到,满足本我要求的方法，找到追求快乐的方法,有时是去找寻放弃的方法。

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Nothing is better documented in the world economy than the principle that the economic system of a nation is the primary determinant of its success.

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Shanghai has made way for London and the Tennis Masters Cup has been rebranded the ATP World Tour Finals, but the principle remains the same - the best eight players in the world battling to end the year as the world champion.

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In the later world inflation will erode the principle balance in half each decade.

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