These findings match past studies that were only abstract thought experiments.

这些发现与以前的那些仅仅是抽象的思想实验的研究相符合。

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These have quite deservedly been sold and exhibited, though they are not representational pictures but only abstract patterns of line and color.

这些画在当今值得销售和展览，但它们并不是真正的图画，而仅仅是抽象形式的线条和色彩。

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When advancing and discovering the problems, the scientists need not only abstract thought and precise reasoning, but also abundant imagination and strong esthetic judgment.

科学家在提出问题和发现问题时，不仅需要抽象思维与严谨的逻辑推理，更需要丰富的想像力和强烈的审美意识。

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In its ruling, the court decided against the patent only because the idea was too abstract.

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This view implies that Archimedes was less an engineer trying to manipulate the physical world than a pure mathematician interested only in abstract concepts.

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One suspects their presence is self-congratulatory, a reminder that Buffalo has opened its doors to many innovators, not only the Abstract Expressionist painters with whom the Albright-Knox is closely associated.

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When Wilde wrote that all excess as well as all renunciation brings its punishment, he evidently had in mind the contrast between Basil, who can conceive of his love for Dorian only in abstract terms, and Dorian, who is so intent on embracing the physical that he loses his mind.

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