在面对新情况时能运用高级的知识解决困难是人类智力的本质特征，而概念的运用使之变得可能。

The ability to use prior knowledge when dealing with new situations is a defining characteristic of human intelligence.

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像“伤害”这样的词是模糊的——例如，这指的是情感上的伤害吗？替换人类员工算是伤害吗？——而抽象概念会带来编码的问题。

A word such as "harm" is vague (what about emotional harm? Is replacing a human employee harm?), and abstract concepts present coding problems.

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像“伤害”这样的词是模糊的——例如，这指的是情感上的伤害吗？那么人类员工被取代会造成伤害吗？——而抽象概念会带来编码的问题。

A word such as "harm" is vague (what about emotional harm? Is replacing a human employee harm?), and abstract concepts present coding problems.

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So if I take away the quotation marks, all I have is the word with no indication that it's a concept.

所以如果我拿掉引号，剩下的就只是这个词而不指示一个概念了。

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He was seen as a sexual renegade out to destroy the conception of people as good and rational and pure beings.

他被认为是支持性本能论的,其观点试图毁掉,人是善良理性而又纯粹的这一概念。

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Hobbes provided us with the definitive language in which even today we continue to speak about the modern state.

霍布斯提供了一种权威性的概念,而直到今天,我们依然用它来描述现代国家。

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