Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion.

有时，某种便利或实际的需要，或仅仅是一个有影响力的人物的幻想就可以引领一种时尚。

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I don't think it can be either reliable or practical.

我认为它是不可靠的和不可操作的。

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Often, it's not possible or practical to debug software on the deployment platform.

通常在部署平台上调试程序是不可行或不切实践的。

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Most importantly you might say what distinguishes the gentleman as a class from the philosophers is a certain kind of knowledge or practical intelligence.

你可能会说，最重要,能区别出,绅士阶级与哲学家的地方,是一种特定的知识,或实际智能。

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Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

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The natural laws for Hobbes are not divine commands or ordinances, he says, but they are rules of practical reason figured out by us as the optimal means of securing our well-being.

对霍布斯来说，自然法不是神圣的法令,或者条例，但这些是,我们发现的实践理性的法则,就像一种最佳的方式保护我们的幸福生活。

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There is plenty of room for debate as to which is more plausible, or practical.

ECONOMIST: The global environment

Leo Strauss helped scare a lot of conservatives out of taking any ideological or practical risks in approaching this task.

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But pretty much every witness raised some concerns, be they ethical or practical, about the way the proposed Bill is currently drafted.

BBC: Real life and law making collide