But clearly there is no such thing as a safe level of cigarette smoke exposure.

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A narrative theory is always talking with some satisfaction about how there's no such thing in fiction as irrelevant detail.

一个叙述性的理论通常都在讲述,小说中没有细节是完全和主题无关的这一满足感。

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figuring out there is no such thing as a free lunch but Markowitz tells us that diversification is a free lunch.

知道世上没有免费的午餐这回事,但马科维茨称分散投资是免费的午餐

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There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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I have no idea. -How can you say such a thing?

我没有概念，-你怎么能这么敷衍我呢？

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We know that the Mycenaeans, or at least some small number of them could write, because we have the Linear B script, which we can read. There is no clue that there is such a thing as writing in the Homeric poems.

我们知道迈锡尼人中,至少小部分,是会写作的,因为我们找到了B类线形文字的遗稿,我们能够解读,但在荷马史诗中,却并没有任何线索表明写作这一点

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In other words, we can't use genre either as a blanket term; one of the most influential people in persuading us that there's no such thing as literature, legal texts, theological texts, philosophical texts, or scientific texts.

话句话说，我们不能将体裁用做一个概括性称呼;,主张没有文学，法律文本,哲学文本，或是科学文本中，最具影响的人物之一。

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