The notion of conservation is that there's ways to transform things such that some aspects of them change but others remain the same.

守恒是指物体某方面的特征,不会因为其他方面特征的改变,而有所改变

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Socrates seems to remain, even until the end, very much a kind of law unto himself while at the same time, again, providing Crito and others like him an example of rational and dignified obedience to the law.

苏格拉底一直到最后，似乎都保持着一种自我定义的法律,但同时，却也提供克里托及其它同类,一种理信,与庄严的服从法律范例。

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