If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.

如果这些法则有机械上,或者几何上的必须性的话，它们就不能被称作道德法则。

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a lot more than kind of people that are drawn towards technical, technical skills or the hard sciences.

对那些喜欢技术，机械，或者硬科学的人的吸引力就不大了。

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It doesn't have every potential, it's a boy or a girl, it's not going to go back, but it has lots of potential in that eventually when it becomes an adult it could become a cellist, or a biologist, or an auto mechanic, or a biomedical engineer, all those potentials are still there.

但不是全部,比如性别已有定论,无法改变,但还是有很多潜能,当孩子长大,他可以成为大提琴家,生物学家,机械师或者生物医学工程师,他仍有所有的潜能

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planes and boats went missing or had malfunctions with their, like, their machinery,

那里的飞机或船经常失踪，或者出现机械故障，

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