It appeals to historic precedent rather than to abstract principles, and aims at the realization of the lesser evil rather than of the absolute good.

现实主义对历史先例而非抽象原则更感兴趣，并致力于使得恶产生得更少，而非实现绝对的善。

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Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I'm still putting to use what he taught me: "The absolute most important skill that you learn when you play chess is how to make good decisions".

在上完阿什利的国际象棋课的十年之后，我仍然在运用他教给我的东西：“下棋时所学的最重要的技能是，如何做出正确的决定”。

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They are untroubled by doubt or concern for the good opinion of others since they already possess absolute truth.

他们从不为别人的质疑和金玉良言所困扰，因为他们已经掌握了绝对真理。

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That's because it's here where the rigid polarities between light and dark and good and evil, all of these absolute oppositions, begin to collapse.

这是因为这里就是光与暗,善与恶之间严格的两极分化，及所有绝对的对比开始崩塌的地方。

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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The lessons from disruptive innovation suggest that these technologies may never be as good as the absolute best human tutor (for example, the raw capacity of vacuum tubes still outpaces that of transistors, which disrupted the vacuum tubes in the consumer electronics market), but they will be plenty close.

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If you're scoring at home, NVIDIA currently holds the lead in single-GPU graphics cards with its GeForce GTX 580, but ATI's dual-chip Radeon HD 5970 has been holding down the absolute speed crown for a good long while.

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Addressing members of the Australia-Ireland fund during a visit to Melbourne on Sunday Bertie Ahern said everyone, including the British and Irish governments, had an absolute obligation to implement all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement.

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