Indeed, the very notion of productivity is a by-product of the clock: once one can relate performance to uniform time units, work is never the same.

事实上，生产力的概念本身就是时钟的副产品：一旦工作表现与统一的时间单位可以联系起来，工作就永远都不一样了。

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On May 9th Mr Berlusconi criticised the very notion of a multi-ethnic Italy.

5月9日，贝卢斯科尼批评了一种构建意大利多民族社会的奇特想法。

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The doubts about meaning thus induce doubts about the very notion of a property.

对意义的怀疑导致了对属性概念的怀疑。

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It isn't the Red Sea. That's a mistranslation that occurred very very early on, so it's led to the notion that they were at the Gulf of Aqaba or somewhere near the actual big ocean water.

并不是红海，这个错误的翻译很早以前就存在了,让人们以为是在亚喀巴湾,或者是接近真正意义的大洋的什么地方。

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People to this day are looking for a theory of everything. And there is something very appealing about the notion that the rules that govern the motion of heavenly bodies might be applicable down at atomic dimensions.

现在人们总想寻求一些,可以阐明一切的理论,而这里正好有一些,可以吸引这种想法的东西,即支配天体运动的规则,可能对原子的尺寸也是适用的。

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Because the notion of free will was that even if I was in the very same spot again, the very same situation again, I could've chosen differently.

因为自由意志的内涵就是,即使我再次处在相同的地点,相同的情况下,我也可能做出不同的选择

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In fact, the very notion of capitalism is under attack in many communities around the world.

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Many people have a grievance against the very notion of comic books, but I don't.

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For many of the latter, the very notion of picking up the game is a complete non-starter.

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