To start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.

首先，我认为我们需要仔细考虑一个定义。

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I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly thirty years.

我将从我的前同事罗伯特·斯特恩伯格那里选择一个定义，他现在是塔夫茨大学的院长，但他在耶鲁大学任教近30年。

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Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.

爱因斯坦为达到实验目的使用了时间的定义，因为时间是用钟表测量的。

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He says the abuses have been widespread and systematic which fulfills a definition of crimes against humanity.

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Literature is many things, a many-splendored thing," you say to yourself, "and it simply cannot be confined or trapped within a definition of that kind."

文学可以是很多，很多奇妙的东西，它不会局限于,那种定义“

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I think you may have defined it already, but I couldn't find a definition of strictly in the book we have.

我想你之前已经定义过了,但是我在课本里没有找到,“严格”的定义

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He explains why it's important not to have too narrow a definition of bias.

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James Harding offers a definition of the "public purpose of journalism" in today's Times leader.

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Years ago I heard a definition for a planet that had to do with its atmosphere.

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