It might not be the way they initially imagined, but one of the things that's great about being our society, being talented students have been the gifts of creative imagination as well as critical thinking.

或许这办法并不像他们原本所想的，但他们有一点是很出色的,无论是作为社会一分子还是有才能的学生,那就是批判思维和富有创新的想象。

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So I think the first critical decision I made is don't spend money as you promised it to your investors.

这就是我所做的第一个决策,不要像承诺的那样去花钱。

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As we increase the voltage, we get to a critical value at which it is possible to actually draw electrons across the gap.

当我们增加气压时，我们得到了一个临界值，在这个临界值上,将电子吸引过来是完全有可能的。

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You shrug them off as unimportant, ? they give you heartburn, ? they are meaningless, they are critical, what do you do with that?

对此不屑一顾呢，还是心生忌妒，它们毫无意义呢，还是说有重要参考价值，分析一下看看？

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For those who are already engrossed in the reading of Ulysses, as well as for those who hesitate to begin it because they fear that it is obscure, the publishers offer this simple clue as to what the critical fuss is all about.

针对那些已经完全沉浸于这本书的人，以及那些因为害怕内容晦涩而还犹豫不决的人,出版商提供了一些简单的线索,告诉大家这部伟大之作的简要涵义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

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Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

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