What you do for a living is critical to where you settle and how you live – and the converse is also true.

你的工作决定你在哪里定居和怎样生活–反之亦然。

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It would be very nice if we had a true figure of how many people in this country haven't got a job.

要是我们有一个确切的数字反映这个国家到底有多少人没有工作就好了。

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When people today are shown a very ordinary Roman pot and, in particular, are allowed to handle it, they often comment on how modern it looks and feels, and they need to be convinced of its true age.

当今天的人们看到一个非常普通的罗马罐，特别是被允许把玩它的时候，他们常常会评论它看起来和摸起来有多现代，他们很难相信其实际年龄。

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You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.

你可以说,这较不像是真实主张的本体,而较像是狡猾的诀窍意识,或说政治悟性。

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Yet how many people could give a kind of reasoned account of ? what makes these beliefs true ? or what grounds these beliefs?

但多少人会能,给一个合理的解释,是什么让这些信念成真,它们的根据为何？

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You can see in the New World with maize being important how America has become a corn dominated society, even though it's still true that we raise wheat, we raise other things in the United States, and we can import different foods, corn has become an incredibly important constituent of the diet in the U.S.

你能发现玉米在美洲大陆的重要性,那美洲是怎样变成主食玉米的社会的呢,尽管我们仍然种植小麦,在美国也种植其他粮食,而且我们能进口各种不同食物,但是玉米还是变成了,美国人食谱中不可代替的部分

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How can a true football fan not want to see Cameroon in action?

BBC: Ghana embraces Nations Cup fever

After all, without that understanding, how can a true financial plan be created?

FORBES: Do you know the value of your Values?

The fact that so many supposed conservatives liken a belief in a gold standard as the monetary equivalent of membership in the Flat Earth Society shows just how far the American public has come from a true understanding of how money works within an economy.

FORBES: Give The Gold Standard Its Due