我们把孩子送到学校也只不过是为了（让他们）接受实用教育——而并非为了追求知识。

Our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

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这个傻傻的小狗门挡很可爱也很实用。

This silly brand doggy doorstop is as practical as it is cute.

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It's a very common class of algorithms, and it's very useful one to have.

这是非常常见的一类的算法，并且也非常的实用。

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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