Instrumental ties predominate in secondary groups; we perceive people as means to ends rather than as ends in their own right.

工具性关系在次级群体中占主导地位；我们把人当作达成目的的手段，而不是目的本身。

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Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.

生产和消费只能作为达到这一目的的手段，而且要防止它们控制了人类。

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He doesn't particularly like the work but he sees it as a means to an end.

他不怎么喜欢这项工作，只是把它看作达到目的的手段而已。

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It is sabotage. It means to damage or destroy as an act of subversion against an organization or nation.

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And, it follows from him that political liberty means the freedom to act where the law is silent, as he says.

而他的政治自由意味着,我们可以在法律所认可的范畴内,享有充分的行动自由。

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What that means is we want to run the hot reservoir as hot as possible and the cold reservoir as cold as possible.

也就是说我们希望高温热源温度尽可能高,同时低温热源温度尽可能低,从原理上说。

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Millennials, on the other hand, largely view work simply as means to an end.

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Mr Kuroda, currently the President of the Asian Development Bank, is seen as a supporter of monetary policy easing as means to spur growth.

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