Talking about crime in the abstract just isn't enough, since criminal activities affect real life.

抽象地谈论犯罪根本不足以说明问题，因为犯罪活动影响的是真实的生活。

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At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstract.

在商店里，你花出去的真金白银的钱越来越抽象。

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The decomposition of business applications into services is not just an abstract process; it has very real practical implications.

将业务程序分解成服务不仅仅是一个抽象的过程；它具有非常真实的现实含义。

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This is a meditation on both the joy and the loss of literary substitution for the real or for the truth, the substitution of abstract pattern for something like comprehensible meaning.

对为了现实或是真理,和有着某些可理解含义的抽象模式，的文学替代的思考,在这里她有些被这宝石般的线索吸引住了。

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Yet who can deny, as the geographers complain, that at the frontier of research, abstract economic modelling and the real world have moved dispiritingly far apart?

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And that sort of publicity could make privacy violations that once seemed abstract far more real for the plane-flying public.

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On the most abstract level this is because liquidity earns real rents, those rents are distilled by a perfectly competitive market and ultimately accrue to the owners of the irreproducible factors of production.

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