And then confronted with a new case, we found ourselves reexamining those principles, revising each in the light of the other.

当我们面临新的情况时，我们重新检验这些原则，根据新的情况修正这些理由或原则。

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The Aufbau Principle comes from a German word which means it is essentially construction or building, build-up principle.

构造原理原来自一个德国词汇,意思是基本的构造,建筑，或修建原则。

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The law of talion, which is essentially the principle that a person should be punished according to the injury they inflicted, it's been decried as a primitive, archaic reflex of the vengeance or vendetta principle.

复仇法，本质上讲述了人应该根据其所造成的伤害,接受处罚的原则，却遭到了谴责，人们认为它是,复仇或仇杀原则原始古老的反映。

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Bentham tells us happiness, or more precisely, utility maximizing utility as a principle not only for individuals but also for communities and for legislators.

边沁说，应最大化幸福，或更精确来说，最大化功利,功利最大化原则，不只针对个人,也适用于共同体及立法者。

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Does this policy of principled disobedience, you might say vindicate or indict Socrates of the charge of corruption and impiety ? that has been brought against him?

这种原则性反抗的策略，可说是证明,或判定苏格拉底,腐化与亵渎神明,罪名的证据吗？

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We tried to articulate the reasons or the principles lying behind our judgments.

然后试图阐明作出这些判断的,理由或原则。

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The city, as Aristotle understands, will always exist in a world with other cities or other states, based on different principles that might be hostile to one's own.

城市，如亚里士多德所认为，将永远会,和其它城市或国家同时存在，根于不同的管理原则,可能还会对自己人怀有敌意。

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The regime for him is not one branch of human activity among others it is the fundamental principle or ordering principle that makes all the others even possible.

对他而言,政体并非人类活动的一个分支,而是基本的原则,或说是指导原则,使所有其它学科化作可能,这就是为何。

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