He says his photographs express a common idea among all the different faces and places.

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That's a fairly common-sense idea, but it's important to define it, and I call that the common-sense law.

十分常识性的概念，但定义它非常重要，所以我叫它“常识定律“

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The idea that America stood for some kind of progress, that America meant a prosperous future was just common coin.

那种美国代表了发展进步,代表了繁荣未来的想法是双方共有的

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The idea of a function is, that I'm going to capture a common pattern of computation.

函数的目的,就是寻找计算的共同模式。

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He rejects the idea that the city is defined simply by a group of people who inhabit a common territory the same space as it were.

他拒绝将城市简单定义为,一群人住在同一领土上的概念,即同一空间。

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It's a common enough idea in movies.

电影中有很多这样的例子。

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As far as religion--Ehrman talks about this in your textbook, - so I won't go into a lot of detail-- but the common Hollywood idea that the Romans were kind of oppressive of other religions, or the Christians, is just that, a Hollywood idea.

至于宗教。。。Ehrman教授在课本里讲得很详细了，我就不再赘述了-,不过好莱坞电影里常常,描绘罗马人压迫其他宗教，或者基督教徒，这只是好莱坞电影。

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The idea that if labor is left free then that common man always has a chance.

这个观点表明如果劳动是自由的,那么平民始终有希望

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