You needed the community that makes use of linguistic conventions to acquiesce in a change of use.

你必须得到一个群体对于惯例改变,所做出的默认。

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and it's also a right that is enshrined in international legal conventions.

国际法律公约中也都声明要保护生存权。

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He had a point because philosophy distances us from conventions, from established assumptions, and from settled beliefs.

因为哲学的确将我们与习俗，既定假设以及原有信条相疏离。

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There are all kinds of little abbreviations they make, ; and it suggests that language has to be wrenched out of its conventions; syntax can be set aside; language needs to move at the speed of experience and at the speed of ecstasy.

他们创造了各种缩写，好像语言必须得被扭曲得偏离原样;,语法可以被搁置一边，语言需要以体验和,忘形的速度移动。

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We refuse to abide by the Geneva Conventions.

我们拒绝接受日内瓦公约。

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And once we rid ourselves of the burden of historicity, we're free to appreciate the stories for what they are: powerful, powerful narratives that must be read against the literary conventions of their time, and whose truths are social, political, moral and existential.

曾经我们将自己从史实性的负担中解放出来，我们,以故事原本的样子自由地欣赏它们：强大的，强大的叙事,必须能冲破那个时代的文学惯例和社会、政治、,道德及实存的真实而被解读。

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Its composition is influenced and determined by literary conventions and goals. Now, of course we all know that there is no such thing as purely objective history anyway. We have no direct access to past events.

它的形成是受文学的惯例和目的影响和决定的,当然现在我们都知道了没有什么是纯客观的历史,我们没有直接通向过去事件的途径。

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