我们是在谈论作为手段的材料，还是在讨论与陶艺有关联的实践？

Are we talking about the material as a means, or are we talking about practices linked to ceramic?

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我喜欢锻炼并看重其外在价值，并不是因为锻炼本身，而是把它作为达到一些目的的手段。

I desire to engage in exercise and I value exercise extrinsically, not for its own sake, but as a means to something beyond it.

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专利申请更多的是出于战略目的，被用作抵御侵权案件的讨价还价筹码，或者作为阻止竞争对手产品发展的手段。

Patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors' products.

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So the pain you're suffering now is actually instrumentally valuable, useful as a means, even though it's intrinsically bad.

所以你现在忍受的痛苦,是有利用价值的，作为手段是有用的，尽管痛苦本身是坏的。

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The things that are valuable as a means " we can say are instrumentally valuable.

作为手段而显得可贵的东西,可以说它们有“利用价值。

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So this suggests that these tests ain't just for economic funding games that they can actually be useful as probes of symptom profiles in mental health issues.

所以这些试验并不仅仅适用于经济,它们也可以在精神健康领域,作为病情监测的手段。

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