In a statement on Monday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the president is pleased that the Senate has decided to include a public option, and that he supports it because it has the potential to hold insurance companies accountable through choice and competition.

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I took those same references the exact opposite way, 'cause I thought that essentially he's referring to the temporality of our moral structure, and how it's just this arbitrary code which our society has decided upon.

我对那些参考的理解完全不同，因为我认为本质上他提到了我们道德基准的暂时性,还提到它们如何只是我们社会,随意决定的准则。

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So, now he has decided to do it and he's gained recognition from the town council, let's say, and he can go forward.

好了,现在他想去建立一个殖民地,并且他得到了人民大会的批准,也就是,万事具备了

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Jahan Ramazani, who is the editor of The Norton and a great Yeatsian, he himself has decided that all this is too much to explain and you don't really need it.

贾汗，拉马扎尼，诺顿的主编,也是个伟大的叶芝研究者,他说这些要解释得实在太多,你们真的不需要。

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Is this really tolerance ? or is it rather a form of moral decay that has simply decided to abandon the search for truth ? and standards of judgment?

这真的是容忍吗,还只是另一种形式的道德沦丧,只不过是决定,放弃找寻真理,和判断的标准？

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