President Obama is said to have stated that, while the past must be understood, he is not there to argue history - and that it is time to "move on" to confront today's challenges.

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That is to say, it is not a system of signs understood as stable relationships between a concept world and a world of signifying.

也就是说，它不是一个符号系统，这个符号系统被理解为,概念世界和指示世界间的稳定的关系。

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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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And then I think it looks like most people understood that four was not a possibility.

然后我认为,大多数人是理解第4个选项,是不可能。

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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They were more like railroads or steel companies and it was just understood.

更多是铁路或者钢铁公司,人们也只知其皮毛

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So, practitioners who understood what we would know to be chemistry were highly valued in that society. And then, you may expand it to other chemical processes, dyeing of cloth, glassmaking, and metals extraction.

所以，理解我们所知为化学的,先行者们，在那个社会是,非常宝贵的，当时，你可能将其扩展到另一个化学过程，如布料的染色，玻璃的制造，还有金属提取。

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It can be understood as the relationship between a reader and a text, and this can be put in a variety of ways.

解释学循环可以理解为读者和文本之间的关系，有不同的理解方法。

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If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

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I just like it or I just don't like it according to principles that can be understood as arising from the faculty of judgment and not from the faculty of the understanding, which is appetitive, and the faculty of reason, which is moral.

我只是根据原则来判断喜欢还是不喜欢,这也可以被理解为从判断力出发,而不是从本能的理解力，或是道德上的理性出发。

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It could be the letter understood either graphically or audibly, and the variety of ways in which one can choose a basic unit in the study of linguistics means that you need a special word for that unit, which is characteristically "the tagmeme."

它既可以以图像的方式理解，也可以以声音的方式，因为每个人研究时选取的,基本的语言学单位不一样,所以需要一个特殊的名词来指代这个单位，这就是，法位“

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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