It is not merely a job, but a way of life.

这不仅仅是一份工作，而且是一种生活方式。

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For Mary,hard work was a way of life.

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To be a political animal means first to possess speech or reason that allows us to participate in a community or a way of life governed by shared standards of justice and injustice.

要成为政治动物的首要,是拥有演说或理性的能力,以让我们参与社群,或由共享公正,与不公标准所统治的生活方式。

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I feel like for most of the people here, it's just like a way of life.

我感觉对于这里的大部分人来说，这就是一种生活方式。

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Many city folk have an emotional attachment to a way of life they have never experienced.

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But what does sectarian warfare look like when it becomes entrenched as a way of life?

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Tipping in Japan and many other Asian countries is simply not a way of life.

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