什么是美洲印第安人保留区是一个实践问题，而不是法律定义的问题，普韦布洛村落一直被美国视为保留区。

What constitutes an American Indian reservation is a question of practice, not of legal definition, and the pueblos have always been treated as reservations by the United States.

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根据法律定义，许多流浪街头的人并非无家可归者。

Many of those living on the streets are not officially homeless.

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缺少明确的法律定义也是警方解决这一问题为什么艰难的原因之一。

The lack of a clear legal definition helps to explain why the police have struggled to address the problem.

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It is a right that attaches to individuals as human beings, even before government comes on the scene, even before parliaments and legislatures enact laws to define rights and to enforce them.

这种权利依附于个体而存在，甚至早于任何政府的建立，甚至早在任何议会和立法机关,制定法律定义权利并强制实施前，就已存在。

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Socrates seems to remain, even until the end, very much a kind of law unto himself while at the same time, again, providing Crito and others like him an example of rational and dignified obedience to the law.

苏格拉底一直到最后，似乎都保持着一种自我定义的法律,但同时，却也提供克里托及其它同类,一种理信,与庄严的服从法律范例。

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