It is also true that it is difficult to think of a single such system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture.

同样，很难想象一个这样的系统：不管是好是坏，都没有经过人类文化的实质性修改。

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Hypnosis is not a state of sleep: It is rather a modified state of consciousness.

催眠状态不是一种睡眠的状态，而是一种被改变的意识状态。

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This means it has not run since it was modified (enabled).

这意味着，它自从被修改（启用）以来没有运行过。

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So Energy simply produced a novel legal analysis claiming that this prohibition applies only when a loan originates, not when it is modified.

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Software does not because it can be modified and updated more quickly than changing out hardware.

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The second is the strikingly different outcome arrived at because Virginia Woolf restrained herself from dispatching her first, intemperate draft reply and carefully modified it so as not to hurt the feelings of the young man - a family friend, very much younger and less experienced than herself.

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