Streams flowed where nature intended them to, and water-driven factories had to be located on their banks whether or not the location was desirable for other reasons.

溪水的流向听从大自然的计划，不管有没有其他原因支持这个选址，水力驱动的工厂都必须设在河岸上。

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Note that there are some combinations which may not be reasonable or desirable.

注意，某些组合可能是不合理的，或是应该避免的。

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’’ If it is to be more than an idle fantasy, aradically different future must be not only desirable but feasible; and to befeasible, it has to be anchored in the realities of the present.

如果远远大于虚无的幻想，一个根本上不同的未来必须不仅仅是美好的，而且是可行的，既然是可行的，就应该在当前的现实中生根。

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So perhaps the best form of life would be not immortality; I think that would be not particularly desirable.

所以生命的最好形式,并不是永生;,那并非十分诱人。

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All heat couldn't get successfully converted into work That would be desirable, but it's not possible.

都变成功,把全部热量变成功是非常令人期待的，但是这是不可能的。

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Individual freedom may be at best a desirable byproduct of the Aristotelian mixed regime but individual freedom is not its defining or principle goal.

个人自由充其量,仅是附加于,亚里士多德式混合政体的产物,而非其所要定义,或首要的目标。

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That may or may not be a desirable situation, but it is the legal system we have.

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It turned out that the proponents of a world free of nuclear arms were long on aspiration and short on credible responses to my contention that common sense dictates such an end state would not be desirable, even if it somehow could be achieved.

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When over an hour a day is spent driving by many, when we spend inordinate amounts of time shuttling people, packages, materials, etc, when humans are terrible at mundane tasks such as driving, how can it not be desirable, even necessary, to move to autonomous driving?

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