Unlike marriage or the ties that bind parents and children, it is not defined or regulated by law.

不像婚姻或联结父母与孩子的纽带，它不被法律所定义或约束。

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Learn that you are not defined by work.

记住，你不是因为工作而才成为你。

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Not defined by particular standards or codes.

未被特定的标准和规范定义。

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"President Obama has made it clear that the United States will not be defined simply by what we are against, but by what we are for the opportunity,liberties, prosperity and common aspirations we share with the rest of the world,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

So it's not defined. But in fact, what this did was it threw an exception.

这是未定义，但实际上，这里做的就是抛出一个异常。

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Although it's not defined in that newspaper that you're reading back there in row twelve, the Market Revolution is not reported in this morning's newspapers; actually it probably is, the markets are going bad, although they went back up yesterday.

但是那张报纸里面没有定义,我说的就是坐在十二行看报纸的同学,今天的早报没有报导市场革命,不过也可能真是,因为现在市场不景气,虽然昨天刚刚有些反弹

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She finally got what she had wanted the whole time: to be free and not defined by cancer.

BBC: The bloom of cancer

Apple products are not defined merely by the problems they solve or the needs they satisfy.

FORBES: We Are All Macs Now

Suspect and victim knew each other, though has not defined the nature of their relationship.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS