Their notion of the “Big Society”—in which public-sector monopolies would be broken up and power devolved to communities—is as close as the election is likely to come to a Big Idea.

他们定义下的“大社会”，即打破国家垄断，权力下放到社区的社会，如今已经同选举会产生成为大事一样，近在咫尺了。

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"The notion that as parents we need to schedule every minute of their time is not doing them a great service," he said.

“做父母的得把他们每个阶段都安排好，这种观念并没给他们带来多大帮助。”他说。

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The way in which people construe the notion of friends on SNSs determines their actions in friend negotiations and rankings.

人们理解“朋友”概念的方式，决定他们在友邻安排和分级中的做法。

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Foucault couldn't possibly allow for that because plainly the whole texture of their discourse would be undermined by introducing the notion that it's okay to be a master, and yet Ricoeur feels that these figures dominate modern thought as masters.

福柯不会认同因为,这样的话他们话语的整个结构就会被破坏,如果引入可以作为大师的观点的话，同时,里克尔感觉这些人支配着现代大师的思想。

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A happy marriage for Milton was founded on a couple of like-minded opinions and values, - their ability to converse with one another -- and so this is why the notion of divorce for reasons of incompatibility is so important to Milton, because compatibility in marriage is the very essence of marriage.

对弥尔顿来说，一段幸福的婚姻是建立在,有着相似观点和价值基础的情侣间的，他们与彼此交谈的能力-,因此这就是为什么对弥尔顿来说离婚这一概念,无论如何都十分重要，因为和谐共处,是婚姻的精髓。

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And one of the things that's striking is, how similar the experience is from person to person and from culture to culture-- that they've got some notion, as they were dead on the operating table, of leaving their body.

而其中最振奋的就是,不管一个人的,生活经验及文化背景,有多相似,他们都能感受到,当他们在手术台上死去,身体已经逝去

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Despite a declaration by the Second Vatican Council three decades ago that all good-willed people could be "saved" regardless of their religion, the Christian notion of salvation still relies on evangelism.

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Another appealing aspect of biodynamics is the notion of healing the land, of bringing soils and their environment--and the cosmos--back into a lively equilibrium.

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"Winemakers feel the same way about their relationship to terroir and the notion of what wine is, " he continues.

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