Human lives are governed by the desire to experience joy.

人生是由体验快乐的欲望所支配的。

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Prices are governed by market demand.

价格的高低取决于市场的需求。

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The two parts of the plan were governed by the same logic.

计划的两个部分均受到了同一思维方式的制约。

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But in Washington the rating system is not governed by the labor contract with the teachers union.

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He started out by observing that all of us, all human beings are governed by two sovereign masters: pain and pleasure.

边沁通过观察得出，所有人类均受两大至高无上的因素所支配：,痛苦与快乐。

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Only a small city, small enough to be governed by relations of trust, can be political, in Aristotle's sense of the term.

仅有一座小城，小到能由信任的关系来管治，才能称作是政治社会，这是以亚里士多德的标准看来。

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The thing to remember about games is that they only appear to be governed by chance.

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Before last year, Britain hadn't been governed by a coalition in peacetime since the 1930s.

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Is business investment based on the fragility of the economy -- is it governed by that?

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