In searching for norms in the sense of authoritative standards of what ought to be, rather than in the sense of what is average and thus can be considered normal, normative ethics aims to dictate.

在寻求规范的过程中，就意义上而言，寻找的是规定的权威标准规范，而不是从平均的角度被认定为常态化，规范的伦理目的在于指示。

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People can distinguish between what is and what ought to be.

人们是能够认清现状和理想的区别的。

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The focus of strategy scholars is still on ‘what ought to be’ rather than ‘what is’.

战略学者们的焦点仍然是“应该是什么”而不是“是什么”。

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What we really ought to be doing here is concentrating on fixing the financial system and the housing problem.

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Well I ought to be able to do that by simply generalizing the loop. And that's what the next piece of code on your a hand out shows you.

好的通过生成这个循环,我应该能够达到目的,这也是你们的讲义中下一段代码。

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We knew this was trying to do squaring, so intellectually we know we can square -4, it ought to be 16, but what happens here?

我们知道程序是用来求平方数的，那么按理说我们可以来求-4的平方，也就是16，但是程序结果是怎么样的呢？

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The Syrian opposition presents the likes of Obama and Power with what ought to be a serious moral dilemma.

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All the technical people are sitting there trying to add their ideas of what ought to be in the design.

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Critics say this may allow what ought to be business decisions to become politicised, as activist shareholders notably union pension funds make mischief.

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