You may have to adapt it to a particular environment, but basically it is copying other ideas.

针对不同的环境，可能需要做些调整，但是基本上就是模仿他人的理论。

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Some people in less-developed countries feel uncomfortable that they are just slavishly copying other, more advanced countries; but, they have to recognize that is what everybody has been doing all along.

欠发达国家的人,对他们模仿其他发达国家的理论发明，感到不安;,但是他们应该知道,大家一直都在这么做。

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