"One example of what they have done is what they call a Congestion Management Program where everybody driving into central city pays a congestion fee and the idea there is to discourage people from driving, but take public transportation instead."

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And the central idea is that there is one proper response to God's mighty acts on behalf of Israel, and that is resolute observance of the book of the Torah of Moses, without intermingling with the peoples that remain.

其中心思想是没有恰当的回应,对于上帝代表以色列的无上举动，还有对摩西五经的绝对遵守，不可与你们中间所剩下的这些国民搀杂。

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So this is the central idea of calculus, right?

这是微积分的核心思想,对吗

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Foucault, by the way, doesn't mention Nietzsche, but he might very well because Nietzsche's idea of "genealogy" is perhaps the central influence on Foucault's work.

福柯，没有提到尼采，但是他可能很喜欢，因为尼采的“宗谱“理论“,可能是对福柯作品影响最大的了。

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The idea was that power to the people rather than the central government.

核心目的是权利属于人民,而不是属于中央政府。

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It seems to be presented entirely innocuously, no one in the dialogue objects to it, yet everything else follows from this idea that the city, the polis, is in the central respect like an individual, like the soul of an individual.

这似乎看起来完全无关紧要，所以对话中的每一个人都不反对，但之后所有的事都慢慢浮现,就从这个概念开始,城市、城邦，重视的核心与个人相同，也像个人的灵魂。

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