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.

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It's in that context that most of the observations we encounter in Russian formalism need to be understood.

我们要从形式角度去理解,俄国的形式主义者。

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He understood the interaction of particles of matter, and that's important to set the stage for the Rutherford experiment in Manchester about 10 years later.

他理解物质粒子之间的相互作用，这点很重要,对于10年后他在曼彻斯特搭设,用于卢瑟福实验的平台来说。

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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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The absolute number that you assign to it is something that's arbitrary. You have to set what the zero is. And so there's a well-understood convention for what the zero is.

你指定给它的绝对值是有任意性的,你需要设定零点的位置,因此有一个经过充分研究的,关于设定零点的约定。

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And that's when I understood the power of the mind.

那时我明白了信念的力量。

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It's to be understood that we have to think of them together.

我们只有把它们放在一起才能理解。

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