We recognize in ourselves a virtue which is considered to be the cornerstone of many systems of moral understanding.

我们承认我们拥有那种美德，可以作为,许多道德认知体系的基石。

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At the end of the day that's where Alexander H. Stephens went, with his Cornerstone Speech in 1861.

最后,就在那里,亚历山大斯蒂芬斯,于1861年完成了著名的基石演讲

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In this respect it seems to me much less like just a branch of political science than the foundation of the entire discipline.

从这个角度切入，我认为它,并不像只是政治科学的分支,而更像是整个学科的基石。

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We all agree that people have minds, sort of the house or the seat of our personalities.

我们都赞同人是有心灵的,它就像是我们人格的归属或是基石

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In passing, I just want to say that Homer, of course, is the basic text, the basic document for all Greek thinking in every area that you can imagine throughout the rest of Greek history.

顺便提一下,我只想说《荷马史诗》,毫无疑问,是古希腊一切文献资料的基石,贯穿了希腊的整个历史,无论是在你能想象到的任何领域

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It was the cornerstone on which they had founded their revolution.

这是在这一基石之上,邦联找到了革命的起点

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Alexander H. Stephens, a Georgian, a slaveholder, said the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the cornerstone of their political movement, was what he called "American Negro slavery."

亚历山大· H·斯蒂芬斯,一个来自乔治亚州的奴隶主,用他的演讲为邦联打下了基石,这块邦联政治运动的基石,被他称为,"美国的黑人奴隶制度"

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