The only relationship that will work with humans is perhaps one in which there is a balance between unchecked independence and blind obedience, And God seems to find that relationship with Jacob.

唯一与人类建立的有效关系也许是,存在着某一平衡的关系,不受遏制的独立与盲目信仰之间的平衡，上帝好像在雅各布那里找到了这种关系。

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And the Scottish are often asking for independence.

苏格兰人还经常要求独立。

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But in their worldview, the pro-slavery worldview, ideas like freedom and liberty were simply never absolutes, and many of them will directly reverse Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and simply say, "Nobody is born equal."

但是在他们的世界观中,亲奴主义者的世界观中,自由和解放的理想永远不是绝对的,他们中许多人,直接颠覆了托马斯杰斐逊的独立宣言,他们说,没有人是生来平等的

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I think assertions of national identity and independence are often predicated on differentiation from others.

我想对国家身份和独立的断言,基础常常是与他者的区分。

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I'm going to drop more than the independence assumption, I'm going to assume that the assets don't have the same expected return and they don't have the same expected variance.

我还想做出一些改动，即这些资产的预期收益率,是各不相同的,方差也是不同的。

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The question is, why does Socrates exhibit such proud defiance and independence of the laws in the Apology, and such total, even kind of mouse-like, acquiescence to the laws in the Crito?

问题是，为何苏格拉底一方面展现了自豪的反抗,及独立于法律之外如同《自辩篇》所载，但这种绝对性，却化为鼠辈般，默认了全部的法律，一如《克里托篇》所载？

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Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

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In other words, we should not care what people say about us, but we should be prepared to develop qualities of self-containment, autonomy and independence from the influence that others can exercise over us.

换句话说，我们不应理会别人怎么说我们，而我们应准备好,发展自制的特质，自治与自主,排除他人,可能对我们的影响。

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It is the center of his life and it explains the Greeks devotion to the independence, to the autonomy of the polis, and their desire to beautify and make it as great as it could possibly be.

这理论是伯里克利的一生所求,并且它解释了希腊人民,为何对独立,对城邦的自治权,如此忠护,以及他们为何如此渴望,去竭尽全力地美化和建设城邦

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And by the way, we, the people of progress, are rooted in those principles of the Declaration of Independence" which are written down essentially as creeds "And, oh and by the way, we have a written Constitution we actually wrote it down, we have a Bill of Rights where we declare these things on paper, unlike the Brits."

顺便说一下,我们,作为进步的人类,是独立宣言的主旨",它被写成文字,作为信条,"顺便再说一下,我们还有一部成文大宪章,我们把它写下来,我们有《人权法案》,一切白纸黑字申明清楚,不像那些英国佬"

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