这篇文章的依据是对未来可能发生什么事情的猜测。

The article is based on guesses about what might happen in the future.

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一些美洲印第安部落也通过法院确立了水权，其依据是在美国获得主权之前他们对某些水资源的传统的转移和使用。

Some American Indian tribes have also established water rights through the courts based on their traditional diversion and use of certain waters prior to the United States' acquisition of sovereignty.

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医生们以胡萝卜籽和胡萝卜根为药，其依据是味道不好的食物对你一定有益。

Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

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Knowing what you know now, any concerns about taking the oral polio vaccine instead of getting the shot?

依据当前结果,你对口服疫苗替代,注射疫苗有何担心吗

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There seems to be a doubt, a variety of doubts, about the foundations of what we can think about the basis of our opinions, that pervades theory, and is seen somehow or another to characterize its history.

有些事物，是我们思想的基础和看法的依据,但理论中却充斥着对它们的质疑，而这些质疑也被视为理论的特征之一。

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We noticed that sometimes we were tempted to locate the morality of an act in the consequences, in the results, in the state of the world that it brought about.

我们发现有时，我们倾向于,依据行为所产生的后果，以及对外界的影响，判断其是否道德。

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