Which would of course cripple the global economy, because as much as we want to win our independence from oil, most of our oil were still coming from the Middle East.

这将导致世界经济瘫痪，虽然我们一直竭力发掘本国石油资源，我们绝大部分的石油,仍然来自中东。

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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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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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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One thing that's been a trend around the world is that the I mentioned that the U.S. Federal Reserve System was different from other central banks in that it was designed to have independence.

一个在世界范围内,流行的事实是,我提到过美国联邦储备系统,与其他中央银行不同,因为它有独立自主性。

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His examples are typically drawn from situations of human beings or polities in extremes where the very survival or independence of a society is at stake.

他的范例是,典型地取材自人类,或政体在极端下的处境,即当存活或一个社会的独立,已面临考验。

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