In Paris the idea that a free-market liberal may believe he is defending a moral position (rather than a necessary evil) often causes surprise.

在巴黎，自由市场主义者可能相信他是在防守道义立场(而不是必要之恶)的观点时常令人咋舌。

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The church reaped huge economic benefit from this feudal system yet as it grew in wealth and power it found itself in an uncomfortable moral position.

教会在这种封建制度中获得大量财务和权力，但在道德上不舒服。

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Anthropocentrism believes that natural objects own no moral position and no moral subject, consequently mankind carries no direct moral obligations to nature.

非人类中心主义则反其道而行之，努力要证明自然存在物是道德主体，拥有道德地位，人类对自然存在物负有直接的道德义务。

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The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

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In each of these cases the figure who stands ab extra, from outside, is an observer, an observer looking in and interpreting the action before him and an observer in a position presumably to make some kind of moral judgment on the action taking place.

在每个例证中，处在明喻本身之外的人，都是一个观察者，一个,向内展望并且解说他眼前的进展的观察人,一个似乎是要对发生的事情作出某些道德评论的观察人。

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But, as is often the case, the passage of a law mandated this moral position.

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When Netanyahu agrees to negotiate from a position of moral weakness and strategic blindness, the message he sends the public is that we should take the likes of Livni seriously.

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Living in Argentina during the years of dictatorship and during times of economic upheaval that created more poverty put the new pope in a position to make moral choices.

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