In the United States they were considered to be Black, a social definition that was feasible because they were in the minority. In Brazil, it was not feasible.

在美国，他们被认为是黑人，这种社会定义是可行的，因为他们属于少数群体。在巴西，这是不可行的。

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The idea "happiness", to be sure, will not sit still for easy definition.

可以肯定的是，“幸福”这个概念很难定义。

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Though the first set—{1,6,2}—intuitively seems more random than the second—{3,3,3}, they are each as likely to occur, and thus according to the accepted definition, must be considered equally random.

虽然第一个集合——{1,6,2}直观上看起来比第二个集合——{3,3,3}更随机，但它们都有可能发生，因此根据公认的定义，必须被认为是同等随机的。

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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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This will be the definition of the mole as the amount of carbon weighing exactly 12 grams, so I would like to know now how many particles, how many carbons are there in that mole.

摩尔的定义就是,12克的碳的数量，我想知道有多少粒子，一摩尔会有多少碳粒子。

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But I think this definition is also limiting, and this is a phenomenon that I hope you will come to be familiar with.

但我认为这个解释也太局限了，我希望你们能逐渐熟悉这一现象。

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Mr. SYKES: Yeah, there will probably always be, you know, a minority, and perhaps the result would be that there is no single definition that everybody would agree on as having general usefulness that there would be one definition for one type of work, another definition for another type of work.

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The 10 largest companies are going to be by definition multi-national companies.

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