据说这部小说是以一个真实的故事为依据的。

The novel is supposedly based on a true story.

《牛津词典》

你会做出不以你能报道的任何事实为依据的一种假设。

You would be making an assumption that's not based on any fact that you could report.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

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Kant calls it "purposiveness"--that is to say, the way in which the thing is organized according to some sort of guiding pattern.

康德称之为，“合目的性“，也就是说，依据某种引导型结构,组织事物的方式。

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It may not clearly think about things, about objects, but it has a kind of legitimate basis that generates the sort of thinking that it does.

意识可能并不能清晰地思考事物，却有正当的依据,产生出它的思想。

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So there are two other models, then, models different from the immigration model, two other models for understanding the formation of Israel, that build on this archaeological evidence.

那么还有两个其他的模型，与移民模型不同的两个模型，这两个模型也是为了说明以色列的形成，它们是依据考古学证据。

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