"I don't think there is any worry Ambassador Bosworth's visit to North Korea will somehow detract from our efforts,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Well, it can only be true if security selection and market timing detract from institutional returns or individual returns in the aggregate.

唯一的可能性就是证券选择,和市场时机选择,给机构和个人带来的是负的回报

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And doesn't Hobbes' materialism and his sort of mechanistic theory of nature seem to detract from any inherent worth ? of the individual?

难道霍布斯的唯物主义和,他的自然的机械理论,似乎有损于,个人的价值吗？

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