She said that she had made it possible "for many colored women to abandon the washtub for more pleasant and profitable occupations."

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Gadamer says, and here again he's attacking historicism: The text that is understood historically is forced to abandon its claim that it is uttering something true.

伽达默尔在攻击历史相对主义时这样说道：,文本如果放在历史的角度理解,那么这样的理解肯定不是绝对正确的。

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It is fear, not reason, that leads us to abandon the state of nature and sue for peace.

与理性不同，恐惧让我们放弃自然状态,转而去寻求和平。

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But he added that, just as the United States must change the way it conducts itself in the world, so too must its neighbors abandon old attitudes.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

I did not abandon my interest in politics to discover how it might be bettered in other respects, and I was perpetually awaiting my opportunity.

我并未放弃对政治的兴趣,仍想探索,如何能更有效地管治，我也一直都在等待我的机会。

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Congressman Boehner of Ohio. "If we abandon Afghanistan, it will return to a safe haven for the Taliban and al-Qaida to plan and execute more attacks on Americans,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Is this really tolerance ? or is it rather a form of moral decay that has simply decided to abandon the search for truth ? and standards of judgment?

这真的是容忍吗,还只是另一种形式的道德沦丧,只不过是决定,放弃找寻真理,和判断的标准？

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