A descriptive approach usually lacks systematic explanation and doesn't give any real knowledge why it happens in this or that way and in any other.

一般的描述法，通常，缺乏系统的解释，不能够给出为什么会发生这样或那样事情等等的真正原因。

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Is it the government's responsibility to correct this or do people just need to buck up and change their lives in a way that turns these numbers around?

政府有责任纠正这种情况吗，还是人们只需要振作起来改变他们的生活，从而扭转这些数字？

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Does it make sense to dissect design in this way or should we just accept the fact that everything is intertwined and come up with a reasonable way to discuss and describe it?

以这种方式来剖析设计有意义吗？或者我们应该接受一个现实：物与物之间都是由联系的，应该用一种更合理的方式来讨论和描述。

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And the way that India healers did this was by putting pieces of this in your nose, or injecting it under your skin.

印度医疗者的方法是,把这些磨碎的东西放进你的鼻子里,或者注射进皮肤里

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Is it government's responsibility to correct this or do people just need to buck up and change their lives in a way that turns these numbers around?

纠正这些行为是政府的责任,还是只需人们行动起来,改变自己的生活方式,来挽回这些数字代表的趋势

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All of this in a way is another way of saying or at least implying okay that political philosophy is an imminently practical discipline a practical field.

也就是说，无论从哪个层面来看,或隐指，政治哲学都是一门,迫切相关于实用的学科,一块实用的研究领域。

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Have the White House lawyers looked at this issue, or has this been examined in any way that you know of?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

So is your concern that this report exists at all, or that this report is being debated publicly in a way which you feel would lead people to have negative impressions of the entire community?

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The work we do in this field is often referred to as idealistic or unattainable, words that do much to stand in the way of productive transformation.

WHITEHOUSE: Champions of Change Blog