The violence represents an effort to undermine Iraqi authorities, to undermine them at a time when it is widely understood that U.S.forces are beginning a departure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

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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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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Somehow the oikos obtains a chunk of land that is understood to belong to it.

贵族家庭控制了大片土地,土地属于其私人所有

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