They are abstemious and abstain from most of the modern things that other English people, who are now rarely abstentious, enjoy.

他们生活节俭，有意避开其他英国人所享用的大部分现代产品。现代生活节俭的英国人实属罕见。

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In the late Seventies, things had to be new, modern, revolutionary.

在20世纪70年代末，一切都得新奇、现代、有创意。

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Like most other things in the modern world, it is the result of thousands of years of human invention.

像现代世界的大多数东西一样，它是人类几千年发明的结果。

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Well, there are three things that most modern states do that on the libertarian theory of rights are illegitimate or unjust.

大部分当代政府所做的三种事,在自由主义理论看来是不合法,不公正的。

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If you think about the American idea as an example of the modern way of thinking about these things, the notion is we can't do anything.

如果你以美国式理念作为,一种现代思维方式去,思考这些内容的话,就会觉得无法可施

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So, again, all together, this is the basis for modern chemistry, and examples I just gave you, are some of the things that modern chemists are working on -- some of the issues that our country faces and our world faces, and how chemistry is involved in that.

所以说,所有的这些就是现代化学最基本的基础，我刚给你们介绍的例子,都是现代化学正在研究的东西,一些我们国家和全世界面临的问题，以及它们和化学的关系。

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The size of one's Nike contract is often seen as another form of scorekeeping for the modern athlete, alongside things like the size of their contracts or the number of Twitter followers they have.

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The company also sees modern technology--things like colorization of old Elvis appearances and superimposing the King next to current stars--as a way to bring the 1950s and '60s rock icon to life in 2007 and beyond.

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True, we have a lot more choices (often aided by technology) about precisely how we do these things in the modern world but we are still built by a hundred thousand years or so of our own species, tens of millions of years of mammalian evolution, into ending up with slightly different brains and slightly different interests to go along with our very different gonads.

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