The official,who spoke on condition of anonymity, indicated Admiral Mullen had an idea what the request would be, but wanted to receive the official document in person and hear details directly from General McChrystal.

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Well, Aristotle and Plato,both sort of theoreticians of the polis each had an idea what's the right size for the perfect polis.

亚里士多德和柏拉图,这两位精于城邦理论的理论家对此各执己见

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But then developments in other fields can change the relative prices and suddenly make an idea that had been hypothetical and unapplied suddenly work well.

而其他领域的发展,改变了相对价格,过去那些看似空想,而且不切实际的主意,就突然间变得可行了

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And dreams had--and this is an idea that long predated Freud.

在弗洛伊德之前就有观点指出。

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They had to work on that, they had to devise-- they had to get an appraisal industry that could appraise houses and get some idea of what they're really worth.

他们得做些工作，他们要设计出-,他们不得不借助于评估机构,以便于鉴定房屋情况，并且得知一些,其真实价值的参考意见。

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