Another illustration of the difficulty of translating all values, in this case, a certain idea of virtue, into utilitarian terms.

这个例子再次说明,很难把所有的价值，此处特指某种德行，转换为功利主义形式。

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It is a transnational idea, in other words, which nevertheless has, obviously, certain specific applications depending on where it is.

这是一个跨国的概念，但是很明显，它也有其明确的地区性。

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Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.

叶芝把第二次降临看成一个意向，一个神话，一个意识，一个比喻，一种诗意的安排和感受。

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There are other things that would qualify as food, but the not too much of course has to do with over-- intake of certain nutrients, the calories; and then eating mostly plants tends to be a pretty good idea.

辣奇多绝对不能算作食物,至于"适量饮食"则应参考,某些营养素及热量的摄入量,而"植物为主"是一条非常好的建议

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Just imagine a philologist being confronted with the idea that the meaning of words at a certain historical moment isn't the only thing that matters in understanding the meaning of a poem.

想象一下，一个语言学家看到一个理论指出,一个字在特定历史阶段的语义,不是影响诗歌意思理解的,唯一因素。

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It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

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