So all these help to create an attitude of conformity in the community, and you can see why a modest, a very plain style would have become so widely imitated throughout rural New England.

因此，所有这些都有助于在社区中形成一种从众的态度，你也可以明白为什么这种谦逊的、非常朴素的风格会在新英格兰农村地区被如此广泛地模仿。

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You can substitute plain flour if you cannot find self-raising flour.

如果你找不到自发面粉，可以用普通面粉来代替。

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If you have some plain text, some message that you want to send, well, you can encrypt it or you can scramble it using a key, a secret key, which might be a physical machine like the Enigma 13 or it might be a number like 13.

如果你有没有加密的文本，你想要寄送的一些消息,你就可以加密它,或者你可以用一个密钥使其变得混乱，那就像一个英格玛的物理装置,或者他就是一个数字。

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There can be fighting without war but there can be no war without an organization that makes it something more than just plain fighting.

就算没有战争,争斗同样可以存在,但没有组织,便没有战争,组织使的战争的意义超出了单纯的争斗

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