展现多元文化往往借助于让不同肤色的儿童出现在照片中，或创造一些恰巧为有色人种的配角——尽管是一种进步，但很肤浅。

Being multicultural often falls back on weaving children of color into photographs, or creating a few supporting characters that happen to be ethnic—an improvement, but superficial nonetheless.

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与2014年相比这仍然是一种进步。

That is still an improvement over 2014.

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因此，我认为减肥是一种进步的表现。

Therefore, I think losing weight is a kind of progress.

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And in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this progression was viewed as an advance, which is not very surprising because the whole theory was put forward by scholars who were basically western monotheists.

在十八十九世纪，这个演变,被认为是一种进步，这并不奇怪,因为整个理论基本上都是由,西方一神论者提出的。

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Monolatry was an improvement. It was getting better.

而单神崇拜则是一种进步，相比之下它会好一些。

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