But most have some common characteristics.

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The many civilizations adopted by the human race have shared basic characteristics.

人类承袭的多样文明,都有着共同的基本特征

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Have you had a professor with very special characteristics?

你的教授中有没有个性非常突出的呢？

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The challenges presented by freedom and the predominance of reason cannot be ignored, nor can they be met by recourse to the experience of other cultures where these characteristics have not been prominent.

自由的现存挑战,和理性的卓越优势不能够被忽略,同时也不能因为他们的典型性,一时不够显著,而诉求于其他的文明

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So, you have these diets and you have these parliaments, but one of the characteristics of absolute rule is that you don't have to call these bodies because the king is the big person.

所以,虽然设有国会,议会,绝对主义国家的特点之一,就是君主不必召开这些代议机构,因为他一人说了算

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They have not evolved to tolerate some of the man made sounds that have very unusual and unnatural physical characteristics. These sounds are for example explosives, industrial noise, musical instruments, power tools, and headphones.

还没有进化到能忍受,某些怪异，超出常规的人为声响,如爆炸，工业噪音,乐器，电动工具和耳机等等。

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You can tell if a pot comes from Athens or it comes from Pylos, or-- not Pylos it was probably out of business-- Thebes or someplace else because they have their local characteristics which are perfectly obvious.

你可以从一个罐子辨认出它是来自雅典,或者皮洛斯,或者--,不会是皮洛斯,它已经衰亡了--,底比斯或是一些其他的地方,因为它们都留有当地的风格,这些风格很明显地表现了出来

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