Water will continue to be what it is today: second in importance to oxygen.

水将继续保持它今天的地位——在重要性方面仅次于氧。

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In spite of its importance to our emotional and sensory lives, smell is probably the most undervalued sense in many cultures.

尽管嗅觉对我们的情感和感官生活很重要，但在许多文化中，它可能是最被低估的感官。

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While the need to rank historical causes in some order of importance may seem obvious to most historians, such hierarchies raise serious philosophical difficulties.

虽然对大多数历史学家来说，根据重要性对历史原因进行排序的必要性似乎是显而易见的，但这种等级制度引发了严重的哲学难题。

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Russia's importance to ballet continued in the twentieth century thanks to the forward thinking Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes dancers.

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By keeping women under the household of the men of their original family, the upper-class Romans tried to balance these different households in size and importance.

所以女子保留娘家的家户关系，有助于罗马上层阶级,平衡不同家户的规模及地位。

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But most importantly, I think, is to go back to the importance given to the individual in Hobbes' philosophy.

除去前面所述的观点,我们还应当给霍布斯哲学中的,个人主义予以足够的重视。

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The Chinese market - where sales of Jaguar Land Rover's vehicles have risen 80% in the past year - has been rising in importance to the company.

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While DAS connectivity is very important for internal hardware design, connecting storage and computing systems over a network continues to grow in importance to enable movement of these vast data streams.

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It may not be as much fun as slinging mud at our political opponents but I promise you it will be far more useful to you when the day comes that you get sick and the politics pale in importance to figuring out how you are going to pay for your illness.

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