The so-called good or bad, but in an idea.

所谓的好坏，不过在一念之间。

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The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an idea but an ideology.

反快乐艺术的兴起与大众传媒的出现几乎是同步的，与之相伴的是一种商业文化，在这种文化中，快乐不仅仅是一种主张，而是一种意识形态。

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Many have reservations, but keep these to themselves in what they perceive as a climate hostile to the pursuit of understanding for its own sake and the idea of an inquiring, creative spirit.

许多人对此有所保留，但在他们所认为的一种不利于为求知而求知和追求探究、创造精神的气氛中，他们却把这些保留了下来。

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But enter "swine flu parties" in an Internet search, and you will see, the idea is out there.

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That's an idea that struck people intuitively at various times in history, but they didn't know how to do these calculations.

在历史上,人们很多次,直觉地感知到了这一点,但是他们不知道怎么去计算

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But then developments in other fields can change the relative prices and suddenly make an idea that had been hypothetical and unapplied suddenly work well.

而其他领域的发展,改变了相对价格,过去那些看似空想,而且不切实际的主意,就突然间变得可行了

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By the end the authors have constructed a methodical defence not only of the Zionist idea but also of the two-state solution in Palestine, an idea which six decades after the UN's partition resolution of 1947 is losing the support of some intellectuals but is still the most plausible way to reconcile the Jews and Arabs of Palestine.

ECONOMIST: Israel

But in 2011, Priebatsch got an even bigger idea based on a promotion SCVNGR was doing with Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD).

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The scandal has led to broader talk of constitutional reform a good idea in itself but an election fought around hastily cooked-up ideas in the current climate could be disastrous.

ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown