For many in Asia gold has long held not something like gambling - a special place as an investment, often as jewelry - glittering gold chains, bangles,and bracelets.

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That is, most processes that we're concerned with, they'll happen with something held constant like pressure or temperature or maybe volume.

这句话是说我们所关注的大部分过程，发生的时候都是保持某个量为常数,比如压强，温度或者体积。

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So that when he says that citizens are held together by ties of common affection he means something very specific.

所以当他们说到公民是由,共同感情的关系所团结在一起,他所指的是非常明确的东西。

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I suppose the first apparently historical event that we know something about is the first Olympic Games, which according to Greek tradition were held in 776 B.C.

我认为第一个已知的重大历史事件,就是第一次奥林匹克运动会,根据希腊人的口头传述,那是发生在公元前七百七十六年

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So for our purposes, we don't have to ask ourselves when Socrates in the dialogue says something, is this a view that the dead man Socrates actually would have held or is this simply a view that the dead man Plato put in the mouth of the character Socrates?

所以,出于这门课程的目的,我们无需深究,苏格拉底在对话中的某个观点,到底是属于那个真实的受死之人苏格拉底的,还是属于已故之人柏拉图,通过作品中苏格拉底这个角色所表述的

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