By feeling we tell what is hard from what is soft.

凭感触分辨软与硬。

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In short, hard power is preferable to soft power.

简而言之，硬实力比软实力更受欢迎。

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Did you buy soft seats or hard seats?

你买的软席还是硬席？

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The kinds of minerals in clay affect how soft or hard it is to work with.

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I would say, part of what we look at are hard quantitative factors, but probably more important than the numbers are the soft qualitative attributes.

我想,我们看重的,是一些硬性的量化因素,这可能比那些抽象的特质属性,更为重要

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I'm the heterogeneous system, soft stuff, hard stuff, liquid stuff.

我是非均匀系统，有软的物质，硬的物质，液体物质等。

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Hard or soft, commodities have fuelled desire, greed and war since the days of Pharaoh.

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And then there's glass and hard and soft plastics, and paper, and card and tin foil.

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The second was a tension between science and the humanities, or between hard and soft subjects.

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