He maintains further the titles of nobility are of value only for the benefits they confer on those of lesser rank or they're not useful at all.

对于贵族头衔,他认为只有在依据头衔划分利益时,它才具有真实的价值,否则再高的头衔也是一无是处。

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This is one of the biological properties, the naturally occurring properties of plasmids, is that they exist in microbial populations and they confer on them resistance from toxins that would ordinarily kill them.

这就是这类生物学特性之一,它是质粒所具有的自然特性,这些质粒存在于微生物群体中,并赋予微生物抗性,使它们免于被毒素杀死

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You have something which suddenly appears amid other things: something which is latent in those things, although they don't in themselves have it until you confer it on them, namely that which confers meaning--language.

这些东西突然于其它东西之间出现：,这些潜在于其它东西之中，虽然若你不给它一个意思的话，它们不会有意思，也就是说，给予事物意义的就是语言。

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