Peter is one of those cases in European history where one person's personality and interest does make an enormous difference.

彼得是欧洲历史上那些,凭借自己的个性和喜好,起到重大影响的例子之一

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If you're discussing social interests and likes/dislikes with a friend,

假设你在与一个朋友讨论些社交上的喜好或憎恶。

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And there're different people who have different tastes about what you do with this piece and that piece of land how do you approach this political issue and that issue.

不同的人有不同的喜好,在应该对这一国及那一国实行何种策略的问题上,在如何解决这一以及其它政治问题上意见都不同。

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The Benthamite utilitarian says everybody's preferences count and they count regardless of what people want, regardless of what makes different people happy.

边沁功利主义者认为每个人的偏好都有意义,不论人们所欲何为，不论其喜好各有不同。

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And if you have your calculator all set up as you love and you don't want to change it, then maybe you should just go and get an $8.00 scientific calculator that doesn't have any of the graphing functions, because you don't actually need them, so that's a better option for you, you can do that as well.

如果你的计算器里已经按照你的喜好编好了,而你又不想改动，那么或许你可以,去再买一个八美元的科学计算器,它没有任何绘图功能，因为实际上你也用不到这些，所以这对你来说是一个更好的选择，你也可以这样做。

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