这些术语的使用常常不够精确，而且常常交互使用。

These terms are often used imprecisely and interchangeably.

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他们努力通过限制关键术语的定义来最小化法律的影响。

They fought to minimize the law's impact by limiting definitions of key terms.

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动物行为学专家对进化很感兴趣，所以他们对这个术语的定义很狭义。

Ethologists—specialists in animal behavior—are interested in evolution, so they define the term narrowly.

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This is actually a recurrent figure in the early poems, isn't it wonderful that there's a term for being turned to marble?

这事实上是在早期诗歌多次出现的一个形象，有一个术语形容变成石头，是不是很美妙？

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You begin to hear, or perhaps smell, the slight whiff of jargon that pervades theoretical writing. It often does so for a reason.

你开始听出，或者嗅出遍布理论文章中的术语的味道,这往往是有道理的。

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Yeats takes on self-consciously staged identities, requiring costumes, and he sees other people in similarly theatrical and mythic terms.

叶芝扮演这些舞台身份时,觉得不自然，总需要乔装一番，他看待别人也是用同样的,戏剧和神话的术语。

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