We're in the world and exist before we know our purpose, before we understand that essence that provides meaning, that defines us. Our essence is what we make of ourselves.

我们存在于世界上，这一存在先于我们的目的，先于我们对本质的理解——那个提供我们以意义和界定的本质，它是我们在存在的基础上进行的创造。

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Newton’s physics was part of his effort to decode the essence of this Lord God Pantokrator, whose essence was indistinguishable from that of the cosmos.

牛顿的物理学是他为了猜度主的精髓 而努力的一部分 主的精髓跟宇宙的精髓没啥区别。

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Well we cannot look at the essence of ourselves any more than we can look into the essence of gold.

我们无法看到自身的本质，就像我们无法看到金子的本质一样。

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"Well,this is critical," "The risk of defeat goes up during this time because you have got, in essence,a political campaign.

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This combining of data and functions on that data is a very essence of object-oriented programming That's really what defines it.

数据与函数的结合,是面向对象编程的核心,这也就是它的定义。

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Many commentators have observed that The change in name accompanies a change in character, a change of essence in Israel.

许多评论家发现,名字的改变也伴随着性格的改变，以色列本质的改变。

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That, too, is the essence of tolerance, and the essence of Islam itself.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ex-president of Indonesia speaks at CSP press conf

Looking back on his inventions, a common theme since that first music composer has been pattern recognition which he believes is the essence of human thinking and the essence of the better-than-human artificially-enhanced intelligence that we are evolving toward.

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He continued, the essence of this tragedy - and note, he says tragedy instead of act of war - the essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers, an inability to imagine or connect with the humanity and suffering of others.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Monica Crowley, Mightier Pen 2012