The body is built on an old form, out of parts that once did very different things.

身体是建立在古老的形式之上，来源于那些曾经起着其他作用的器官。

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Not only do literary purists now complain of the evanescent nature of letters onscreen, the tech aficionados have become equally disdainful of the old form.

文学纯化论者抱怨屏幕上的文字稍纵即逝，而技术迷们则对旧形式文字不屑一顾。

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Gyorgy Lukacs mistakenly considered natural ontology as the foundation of social existence, and thus ignored the basic difference between Marxist philosophy and the old form of materialism.

卢卡奇之失在于把自然本体论理解为社会存在本体论的基础，从而磨平了马克思哲学与旧唯物主义之间的根本差异。

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The U.N.study finds nearly one million Afghans between 15 and 64 years old are suffering from some form of drug addiction.

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What does it mean, a new form comes about only to replace an old form which has ceased to be aesthetically viable?

但是新的形式代替旧的形式,来换取审美的重生是什么意思？

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The purpose of new form is not to express new content, but to change an old form which has lost its aesthetic quality lost its power to take the film away from our eyes].

新形式的目的不是要表达新的内容，而是要更换已经失去美学价值的旧形式,不能调整我们看世界的旧眼光了。

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It has been described as a new twist on an old form: German Expressionism.

ECONOMIST: Germany is now the dance centre of the world

Some may argue that cold calling is dead or at least the old form of cold calling.

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The signal from Giuliani was that he had found his old form.

NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man