Their knowledge doesn't only belong to themselves as private property. Rather, it is the spiritual property of the public and society.

他们拥有的知识绝不仅仅属于个人财产，而是具有公共性的、社会性的精神财富。

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Privacy, in essence, is private information that is hidden in private carriers or phenomena and knowledge that can not be casually known to the society or irrelevant of the public interest.

隐私本质上是一种隐含在隐私载体或现象中的、个人不愿随便被社会知悉的、与公共利益无关的私人信息。

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The distinction between public knowledge and private knowledge actually is just artificial delimits.

知识的私人性与公共性的区分是人为地划出来的。

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As regards the creation of new knowledge, a wide range of public and private regulations now curb cooperation among research scientists in the industry, the academy, and government.

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That means attaining the knowledge required to get things done using both public and private sector resources.

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He traces the public and private debates, which were consistently and woefully uninformed by any real knowledge of the true costs entailed, from before independence in 1947 to the series of blasts that shook the world over half a century later.

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