The boy might instead kick the dog and think he hates the dog because that's a more acceptable target.

孩子可能会去踢狗，觉得狗很可恨,因为狗是可以接受的替代性目标。

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and more acceptable to the theater goers and it's different than it used to be.

更为戏剧爱好者接受吧。它和从前不同了。

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to make it, I don't know, more acceptable to tourists,

我也不知道，他们想让时代广场更容易被游客接受，

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There is rationalization, which is that when you do something or think something bad you rationalize it and you give it a more socially acceptable explanation.

还有合理化，是指当你做坏事或有不良想法时,你会将行为合理化,为行为寻找一个更为社会接受的解释。

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Hobbes, in other words, tried to render acceptable, tried to render palatable, what Machiavelli had done by providing a more precise and more legal and institutional framework for the modern state.

霍布斯，换句话说，试图去变得易于接受，试图去变得更加愉快，马基雅维利的做法是,给现代国家提供一个,更加精确，更加法定的机构性框架。

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