She says health facilities are a fundamental part of community life and it is important they are designed to be useful in case of emergency.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Natural language, speech, and voice are going to be fundamental to the changing UI, and we have to invest.

自然语言，演说，声音对于改变用户界面来说是最基本的，必须得到投资和发展。

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There must be fundamental reasons for it and I wanted to go over some of the fundamental reasons why we have banks.

它的形成必有其根本的原因,下面我就阐述银行产生的一些基本原因,为什么会有银行

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"Voting is particularly important because when we exclude people from voting - we're excluding them from the fundamental act of what it means to be a citizen."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

That seems to me to be in some ways the fundamental question that ?! the Apology asks us to consider. Okay?

那在我看来，从某个层面来说,是《苏格拉底自辩篇》,要我们思索的基本问题，好吗？

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"I think the problems we see here and there should be seen in the broader political context, and the fundamental solution to our problems,as they stand now, is opening the political space,and also in terms of reconciliation and amnesty."

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The best explanation of that behavior is to be found by claiming that at some level, at some fundamental level,we don't really believe what we claim to believe.

对那种行为最好的说明就是口头上相信，但在某种根本的程度上，我们并不相信它。

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"Given everything that's going on, given the kind of response that the Iranian government has had to the desires of the Iranian people to have their voices be heard, to have their basic freedoms be respected these are the most fundamental American political values that we have,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

I'm going to be trying to explain fundamental aspects of ourselves including questions like how do we make decisions, why do we love our children, what happens when we fall in love, and so on.

我将试着去解释一些我们遇到的基本问题,包括我们如何决策,我们为何喜爱我们的孩子,堕入爱河时会发生些什么,等等

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Yet in another sense political philosophy is something much different than simply a subfield; it seems to be the oldest and most fundamental part of political science.

但从另一个层面来看,政治哲学,相当不同于仅单纯是次领域的学科;,它似乎是最古老且最基础的,政治科学部份。

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Every society no matter of what kind requires a kind of faith in its ruling principles in its fundamental beliefs. But belief seems to be threatened from at least two sources.

每一个社会，无论其型态为何,都需要在其统治原则及基本信念中,加入些信仰，但是信念,似乎受到至少两项来源的威胁。

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The Athenians refuse to tolerate Socrates because they know he is not harmless, that he poses a challenge, a fundamental challenge to their way of life and all that they hold to be noble and worthwhile.

雅典人拒绝容忍苏格拉底,因为他们明白他并非无害，他公然挑衅，社会本质的生活方式,及他们视为崇高及值得的观念。

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