When you're serious, any way to win will do, but mostly you could make a virtue of a necessity.

一旦你较真,你会为了胜利不择手段,但通常你会在之前进行道德的考虑

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That doesn't, by the way, happen until 1934 when it became a kind of pronouncement of necessity at the International Soviet Writers Conference on that occasion.

直到1934年4,国际苏联作家会议,发表了类似的声明。

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If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.

如果这些法则有机械上,或者几何上的必须性的话，它们就不能被称作道德法则。

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