It seems to have a--what we might call today a normative component to it it makes a distinction or a judgment between the well-ordered and the deviant regimes the corrupt regimes.

它似乎还有一种，我们今日,可能会称之为规范的元素在里头,它区别，或说判断了有条理,管治与越轨的政体。

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This is a distinction which is not meant sort of counter-intuitively to suggest that somehow or another, as opposed to what we usually think, writing precedes speech--not at all.

这个区别没有在某种程度上故意地，与我们的直觉相反,暗示，无论如何，与我们通常想的相反,我们通常认为书写是在讲话之前的，完全不是这样。

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If you want it to take a so-called argument or a parameter, there's a subtle semantic distinction between arguments and parameter, but for all intents and purposes, they're the same thing.

如果你想要你的函数携带参数或,参量，这里有一个微妙的语义差别在,参数和参量之中，但是为了所有的意图,和目的，他们作用是一样的。

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But he says, "Others believe that the distinction between master and slave is not natural, " but is based on force or coercion."

但他还说：，“有些人却不认为,介于主奴间的区别是自然的，而是基于武力或威吓的缘故“

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He embraces the heterodox idea of monism, sometimes called animist materialism or vitalism, which is essentially a denial of any distinction between the body and the soul.

他赞同一元论的异端观点，一元论也叫做万物有灵论或者生机论,强调肉体和灵魂没有界限。

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Is Locke contradicting himself or is there an important distinction here?

是洛克在自相矛盾呢，还是这存在着重大区别？

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Some will take one side, others will take another, and we'll find ourselves siding or not siding with them, at least in part for reasons that arise out of the distinction between these two positions that I've been making today.

有些人支持一方，其他人支持另一方，我们支持或不支持某一方，部分原因就是,我们今天讲的二者的立场。

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Socrates' disillusion of that very framework,challenges, it seems to me, the very possibility of political life by questioning the question or the distinction between friend and enemy.

苏格拉底,对这个框架的醒悟，在我看来，挑战了政治生活的可能性,就在他提问,或区别友与敌的问题时。

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Is it something that is implanted in us ? by nature in that sense, or is that distinction something ? that is created by nurture and education, ? what we would call today maybe socialization?

那是天生,就深植在我们体内的吗，那种区别,是由培养与教育所创造的吗，今日我们可能会称之为社会化？

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It's one of the interesting and curious features of the Protestant mask, Comus,that this is a distinction that's never really observed or acknowledged. Virginity and chastity seem to be used often and kind of awkwardly, I think, interchangeably.

这是新教徒面具里一种有趣而不寻常的特征，《科玛斯》，这是一种永远,不会被发现或是承认的区别，我觉得童贞和贞节,似乎经常被笨拙的互换使用。

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