Oral poetry was not simply a way of telling lovely or important stories, or of flexing the imagination.

口头诗歌不仅仅是一种讲述美好或重要故事的方式，也不只是一种展现想象力的方式。

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Whether you like a piece or not is important, but you should be able to explain why you like a particular piece and be able to talk about its historical and musical context.

你是否喜欢一部作品很重要，但是你应该能够解释你为什么喜欢某部作品，并且能够谈论它的历史和音乐背景。

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It's not important, then, if there's a delay of a few years, or decades.

如果信号的接收会延迟几年或几十年，那么这个问题并不重要。

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"One of the absolutely key, most important variables as to whether or not a forest survives and continues is whether local people monitor each other and its use.

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Right? Most of them aren't,or about half of them, I think,are not in the Bible,and yet they're very important for the history of Western Civilization.

但是大多数其实并不是，至少一半不是，但是对西方文明历史,却有着极其重要的意义。

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And just as there are innumerable human activities which require undistorted references if they are to be satisfied, so there are innumerable other human activities not less important which equally require distorted references or, more plainly, fictions.

就像无数的人类活动,需要真实的证据,如果要达到令人满意的效果，无数同等重要的,人类活动,也同样需要失真的参考,说得更明白点，就是需要虚构。

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And as for the biggest lie of all, marital infidelity whether to tell or not is an important question, but not the primary one a person will need to address if unfaithful to a spouse, therapists say.

WSJ: Lying to a Spouse: Relationship Advice on How It Can Be Healthy

This is not to suggest the work done by Johnson or Obama is not important, but their efforts COMBINED are dwarfed by the sheer magnitude and speed with which Roosevelt changed absolutely everything in America.

FORBES: Obama To Nation: "What Do You Think Of Me Now?"

Not that targets or time tables are not important, but that is not enough and that you have to do something to change technology.

NPR: Seeking Profit in Kyoto Protocol Compliance