(Obama's Speech) In crafting the U.S.response to global climate change, the president said congressional lawmakers must take into account the real price of America's heavy reliance on petroleum-based energy.

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It's a very different kind of crafting, but yet it does replace reality in a similar way, or it makes demands on reality that push the real back.

是一种很不一样的工艺，却以同样的方式代替了现实，或者对现实提出要求。

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The remainder of the Republic is, again, devoted to crafting the regime that will produce a distinctive kind of human character, and that of course is why the book is a utopia.

理想国》的往后章节，是全面致力于刻划能催化,独特人类性格的政体，那也当然就是为何此书是本乌托邦。

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