Is it worth fighting a big war, in the name of an abstraction like sovereignty?

以象主权这样一个抽象概念的名义，值得打一场大战吗？

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A resource is an abstraction of information.

资源是信息的抽象。

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Service is an abstraction that represents a WSDL service.

服务是WSDL服务的一种抽象表示。

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The sovereign is not the direct expression of my will or your will, but rather an abstraction from my natural desire to rule myself.

君主制不是对我的，或者你的意志的直接表达,不如说是一种抽象概念,是源于自己统治自己的自然愿望。

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The state was an abstraction, but in the person of the czar it was a reality.

国家" 只是个抽象概念,但沙皇这个人是真实存在的

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I'm using it as an abstraction, saying I'm going to have square root from somewhere, maybe I'll build it myself, maybe somebody gives it to me a s part of a library, so I'm burying the details inside of it.

我把这个方法作为一个抽象来引用，意味着我将会从另外一个,地方去求一个数的平方根，可能我会自己写这个方法,也可能我会从别人写的lib中去引用,因此我将实现的细节放到了其他地方。

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Class-action lawyers have clients, after all, even if they seem like an abstraction in many cases.

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Life is an abstraction, hard to define, impossible to patent in Europe or anywhere else.

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Their MVP will be built as an abstraction of documents they received from wedding planners and newlyweds.

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