McWhorter 承认正式的语言并不是绝对必要的，也没有提出任何激进的教育改革——他实际上是在为失去一些美丽但相对不实用的东西而悲伤。

McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms—he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful.

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价值几乎从不是绝对的；相反，我们根据其他选择来决定一个东西的价值。

Value is almost never absolute; rather, we decide an object's value relative to our other choices.

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很明显，这种控制不是绝对的。

Quite obviously, the control is not absolute.

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Gadamer says, and here again he's attacking historicism: The text that is understood historically is forced to abandon its claim that it is uttering something true.

伽达默尔在攻击历史相对主义时这样说道：,文本如果放在历史的角度理解,那么这样的理解肯定不是绝对正确的。

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This kind of tension doesn't make things clear; the rules are not absolute, and not everybody fits into a pigeon hole.

这种紧张的冲突并不能让万事柳暗花明,因为事事无绝对,并不是每个人都能一个萝卜一个坑

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And there is no belief you could possibly hold given these numbers in this game that could ever rationalize shooting the ball to the middle.

在给出的这些数据下,无论你认为门将有多大概率会扑向右路,从中路射门绝对不是一个合理的选择

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