It's something that things in the empirical world can participate in or partake of to varying degrees.

它是以不同程度参与到,经验世界中的各种事物

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So that we can talk about things being beautiful to varying degrees, but we never come across beauty itself in the actual empirical world.

我们可以探讨,事物的不同程度的美丽,但是我们从不在现实世界中,直接碰到"美丽"这个东西

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Towards the end of the semester do we introduce what languages like PHP and SQL, HTML, CSS, to varying degrees, but with them can you implement the same kinds of ideas that you might have in your mind in the context of a web page.

在接近学期末的时候,我们向程度不同的同学介绍了像PHP和SQL，HTML，CSS这样的语言，使用这些技术,你可以把你想象中的东西。

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There are various arrangements, social arrangements, that can be just or unjust to varying degrees.

存在各种不同的制度,社会制度,它们在不同程度上是正义的或不正义的

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They partake of beauty to varying degrees.

它们美的程度不一样

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And the reason for positing these things is because we're clearly able to think about these ideas, and yet, we recognize that the ordinary physical world-- although things may participate in them to varying degrees-- we don't actually come across these objects or entities in the physical world.

我们假定这些的原因是,这样我们就能够清楚的,去思考这些理念,目前我们认识到在正常的现实世界中,尽管很多东西或多或少的参与其中,我们并不会在现实世界中,直接面对这些对象或者个体

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