I was a first year student and happily minding my own business, getting ready to try to pick a summer job.

我当时是一年级，只关心自己的小生活，想好好准备暑假打个工。

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So if you're impure at home and just minding your own business, it's no big deal. It's only a problem if you decide you want to go to the sanctuary. So purity and impurity are states of qualification or disqualification for contact with sancta.

如果在家的时候不纯洁，一心只关注自己的事情，这倒不是什么大事，只有当你想去圣所的时候,才是个问题，因此纯洁和不纯洁只是表明了,你是否有资格接触圣所。

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Its conception of justice, minding one's own business, is a rejection of the democratic belief that citizens have sufficient knowledge to participate in the offices of government.

他的正义概念，只管自家事等，双双拒绝了,民主信念中认为公民有足够知识,参与政府职务的能力。

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That is to say, the three parts of the cities, workers, auxiliaries, guardians, each of them all work together and each by minding their own business, that is doing their own job, out of this a certain kind of peace and harmony will prevail.

也就是说，城市的三个部份，工人，后备军人及守护者，每人都紧密合作,且各司其职，只管他们自己的事，在此以外,特定的和平及和谐将照管一切。

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