The possibilities of freedom must always, in their view, be balanced with the world as it as--not as it ought to be.

在他们看来,自由的存在可能性,必须与现实相结合,而不是理所当然的

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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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So, it really is -it really ought to be on the bank's balance sheet and it ought to be regulated by the bank regulators, but there was a failure to do that and that is the problem that we are in currently.

所以说,它确实该...,它应该反映在银行的资产负债表上,同时接受银行监管体系的管理,但这却没能实现,这就是我们目前面临的问题

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James Henry Hammond starts writing in the forties and into the fifties and he takes it much further, and he writes over and over and over again that, said James Henry Hammond, is that too damn many northerners didn't understand it is the way of the world as it is, and they ought to stop talking about the world as it ought to be.

詹姆斯.亨利.哈蒙德不惑之年才开始写作,到了五十岁仍笔耕不辍,他不停地写作,不停地著书,詹姆斯·亨利·哈蒙德说道,大多数北方人不能明白,这就是世界的本原,他们应该停止有关世界本源的讨论

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My argument here is that not only is it important, it also ought to be important.

我认为它不仅重要，而且也应该是重要。

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In other words, a connotation is valuable and ought to be invoked even if it's philologically incorrect if it contributes to the unity, the complex building up of the unity, of the literary text.

也就是说,如果隐含意义是文本更具有一致性,它就是有价值,且值得探究的，即使从语言学角度说，它是不正确的。

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If that argument, if the argument-- If trying to run the Cartesian argument for astronomy fails, yet it seems to be an exactly analogous argument, we ought to conclude that the argument for the distinctness of the mind and the body must fail as well.

如果这个论证,如果把卡氏论证运用到天文学,是失败的,看来我们也不得不承认,类似的那个证明心灵,和身体不同的那个论证,必然也是失败的

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So I think the outcome should be philanthropy and those of you who are successful really ought to give it away.

所以我认为有钱人,就应该做慈善,而你们中那些成功人士,真的应该将财富捐献出去

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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bug If you find a bug, it probably means there bug are more of them. So you ought to be bug a little bit careful. The story I've heard told is you're at somebody's house for dinner, and you're sitting at the dining room table, then you hear a .

对不对？你得修复这个,如果你发现了一个,可能就意味着还有更多的,因此你应该小心点，我听说的一个故事，是当你在别人家吃饭的时候，你坐在餐桌上呢，然后听到了邦的一声响。

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