With the adoption of the Convention, she notes the international community unanimously recognized for the first time in history that children are not simply the property of their parents or guardians, but are in charge of their own destiny.

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The good human being loves what is good simply not because it is his own but because it is good.

好人喜欢单纯良善的人事物,不只是因为那与他有关，而是因为那是良善的。

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Yes, but in general, firing somebody simply because of age, is not only strange in America but illegal.

但是总的来说，只因为年龄就辞退员工在美国不常见也不合法。

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Leisure does not simply mean rest or inactivity but leisure is necessary for education or what he sometimes calls by the term philosophy.

安逸不单意指休憩或静止不动,安逸是教育的必备条件,或是套用,他有时会使用的词汇－哲学。

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But there's the middle possibility, which is not so much think about them and deny them, not so much think about them, accept them and act accordingly, but simply don't think about them.

但有一个折中的可能性，没有考虑太多也没有否认它们，没有考虑太多，接受它们并采取相应的行为，而只是完全不去考虑。

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And he argues that indigent citizens, who are unable to provide for themselves, should not be forced to rely simply upon the private charity of individuals but should be maintained at public expense.

对于那些因贫困而无法养活自己的人，他却认为不能让他们，完全依靠私人的慈善救济过活,而应当用国家公共支出,建立相应的保障来维持他们的生活。

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That is to say, someone with sufficient political audacity to create their own authority, who has not simply received it from the past, but to create their own authority.

也就是说,他或她必是一位具有足够政治勇气,且能创造其自身威信的人，而非单纯只是接受过去的遗产，更是创造其自身的威信。

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