Ideas like this, as I say, are taken from the aesthetic and practical thinking about the nature of the work of art that one finds in Modernism.

这种观点,来自对,现代主义作品美学和实际的考虑。

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His aim in the first instance was the practical one of making sure his technology ventures succeeded in the market.

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His aim in the first instance was the practical one of making sure his own technology ventures succeeded in the market.

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Now it's not in the House version of either bill, and as a practical matter it'll probably stay in one, come out of the other.

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