In Hardy's eyes, historical changes in transitional society don't necessarily mean development and progress, but imply failure and regret.

哈代认为社会转型期内的历史性的巨变不是进步，反而代表着失望和遗憾。

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What do I mean? Mark Smith specifically describes the origin and development of Israelite religion as a process of what he calls convergence and differentiation.

我是什么意思呢？，Mark，Smith专门描述了,以色列宗教的起源与发展,是他所说的一种集合却又保留差异的过程。

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But with the sort of mean software development teams Google is famous for, Microsoft needs to get on the defensive in order to maintain its lead with enterprise customers.

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The plans would mean the development of drug and alcohol treatment programmes within community sentences, identifying and treating mental illness in offenders, and better investment in prisoner education which will "lead to jobs on release", he told peers.

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He added that detectives still had work to do on the case, but that did not necessarily mean a major development was coming.

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