We need to redefine what we mean by democracy.

我们需要重新考虑我们对民主的理解。

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We say, "I love you" to our parents or significant other when we hang up the phone, not because we mean it, but out of habit.

我们会在挂电话时和父母或者某个重要的人说“我爱你”，不是因为我们真的想这么说，而是因为习惯。

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By communal, we mean they reflect the traits and the concerns of a particular community at a particular time.

我们说的“公共”指的是它们反映了特定时期特定群体的特点和关注点。

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During tough times -- I mean we are in a recession right now -- this is like affordable luxury.

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And specifically, when we talk about ionization energy, it's assumed that what we mean is actually the first ionization energy.

特别地，当我们讨论电离能的时候，我们默认,这指的是第一电离能。

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Oh, at MIT, you mean? Yeah, well, so we number all our classes, too, or all our courses.

啊，你的意思是在麻省理工学院吗？确实如此，我们给所有的课程都编了号。

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At the moment, there's not enough evidence to say and, if anything, on balance it's most likely not to be the case, " blogger Jamie Condliffe wrote for Gizmodo U.K. "But that doesn't mean we can rule it out.

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Making the case for the U.S. Export-Import Bank does not mean we should be indifferent to the need to improve its oversight.

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We want to see the international community responding and, you know, we've built coalitions before, I think that's what we should be doing now is building a coalition to make sure that President Mugabe knows that we mean business.

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