But it does mean that this decentralization is an essential part of who they thought they were.

但是这就意味着地方分权,是他们自我认知的基本组成部分

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Because it's essential to locke's case that private property can arise even before there is any government.

因为洛克理论中必不可少的一点是说,私有财产在任何政府建立前就已经产生。

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In fact, that is essential to banking and it's kind of part of the -you might almost call it the definition of a bank.

事实上,这对银行业务是至关重要的,并且这是部分的...,几乎可以说这就是银行的定义

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And it turns out that collecting information about categories is essential to our survival.

我们发现收集类别的信息,以我们的生存至关重要。

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And it seems that if we accept the body view, we have to say being a person is not an essential property of being something like me.

似乎如果我们接受了肉体理论，就必须说作为一个人,并不是作为我的基本性质。

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Or perhaps, strictly speaking, what we should say is the only part that's essential to the person is the soul, though it's got a rather intimate connection to a particular body.

或者,严格地说来,我们可以表达为,灵魂是人最本质的部分,尽管它和肉体间保持着密切的联系

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So if we want belief in a soul to help us leave open the door to the possibility that I survive the destruction of my body, it had better not be that the body is an essential part of me.

因此如果我们相信灵魂,可以帮助我们在幸免一死的,问题上打开一扇窗,那么必须是肉体不是我的重要组成部分

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I think the essential element, in my mind, that makes it a crime is the idea that they decided at some point that their lives were more important than his, and that, I mean, that's kind of the basis for really any crime.

就我的认知，我觉得最重要的一点，之所以说他们构成犯罪,是他们认为，某种程度上，自己命比派克更重要，而这正是一切犯罪的动机。

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