In its most general sense, prescriptivism is the view that one variety of language has an inherently higher value than others, and that this ought to be imposed on the whole of the speech community.

从最普遍的意义上说，规定主义指一种语言比其他语言具有更高的内在价值，而这种价值应该强加于整个语言群体。

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In searching for norms in the sense of authoritative standards of what ought to be, rather than in the sense of what is average and thus can be considered normal, normative ethics aims to dictate.

在寻求规范的过程中，就意义上而言，寻找的是规定的权威标准规范，而不是从平均的角度被认定为常态化，规范的伦理目的在于指示。

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Machiavelli, he notes, concluded that "one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved."

他指出 Machiavelli 总结说： “一个人应该既让人敬畏又让人爱戴，但由于两者很难同时存在，因此让人敬畏比让人爱戴要安全得多。”

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What we ought to be doing is pursuing the kind of broad-based prescription for recovery and stimulating this economy that has always worked: fiscal discipline in Washington and tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms."

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So, it really is -it really ought to be on the bank's balance sheet and it ought to be regulated by the bank regulators, but there was a failure to do that and that is the problem that we are in currently.

所以说,它确实该...,它应该反映在银行的资产负债表上,同时接受银行监管体系的管理,但这却没能实现,这就是我们目前面临的问题

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But the split would leave Netflix with one business that is probably going to shrink DVD-by-Mail and another that ought to be growing fast but is going to be hard for Netflix to master.

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What we do know, however, going to the CBO report, is that the single biggest component of the so-called fiscal cliff is the middle-class tax cuts that Republicans and Democrats all agree ought to be extended.

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However, the engineers cite various ways in which they believe the response is falling short - in particular, through lack of co-ordination between agencies and regulators that ought to be working together.

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