Einstein's major breakthrough was to say that space and time are not absolutes and that gravity is not simply a force applied to an object or mass.

爱因斯坦的重大突破在于指出了空间和时间并非绝对之物，重力也并非仅仅只是施加于物体之上的力。

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These are really goals, not hard absolutes.

这些其实是目标，不是绝对的。

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More often than not, your promise is an absolute(i. e"I promise I'll always love you"), and only Sith deal in absolutes.

大部分时候，你的承诺都太过绝对（比如“我发誓我永远爱你”），也只能在绝对环境中才能实现。

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Here, co-operation is a matter of wary judgment, not absolutes.

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Yet, despite the different appearances, the forthcoming version of Microsoft's venerable operating system is not about absolutes, but optimizations.

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