"Because it is enforced by law, people install art out of obligation without any passion or an eye for true art," he said.

“因为是法律强制执行，很多人制作艺术品都是为了完成任务，并没有什么艺术热情和艺术眼光，”他说。

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If the treatment sounds too good to be true, costs too much money, or has no research behind it, you're under no obligation to say "yes."

如果治疗听起来好得跟真的一样，费用又太贵，或者没有研究依据，你没有必要说“是的。”

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Because it is enforced by law, people install art out of obligation without any passion or an eye for true art.

因为是法律强制实行，人们因为义务才创造艺术，并未具有艺术的热情和欣赏艺术的真眼光。

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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Now, the obligation of local officials -- and this is the same -- is true on the federal government -- our obligation is to make sure that every dime of money is being spent wisely.

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