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定义
Define
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
领导者的首要责任是定义现实。最后是说谢谢。在这两者之间，领导者是一个仆人。
Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.
战略规划将帮助您全面发现可用的选项，为它们设置优先级，并定义实现它们的方法。
Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.
你的外表不应该决定你是谁，这就是我喜欢的，人们看起来和他们内心深处的相反。
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
我确信，下棋的方式总是反映出棋手的个性。如果某种东西定义了他的角色，那么它也将定义他的游戏方式。
Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
环境不能定义你。我没有很多钱，但我可以帮助培训人们，我可以和人们交谈。我们都可以成为下一代的导师。
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
艺术和诗歌作家们曾多次尝试用抽象的方式来定义美，用最普遍的术语来表达美，为美寻找一些普遍的公式。
I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.
我是一个非常忠诚的人，我允许自己被定义为听从戈登命令的人。在早期阶段，我应该更努力地去定义自己。
I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.
我觉得很重要的一点是，你所做的一件事并不能定义你是一个人。这并不意味着没有后果，或者你不应该为此付出代价，但这不是你的本意。
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
语言学的目标之一就是定义自己，识别属于自己的领域。在那些依赖心理的情况下，它会间接地这么做，保持独立。
For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
出于某种原因，人们觉得我很有趣。很难定义一个想法为什么有趣。更难以定义一个人为什么会有趣。这是一个我根本无法定义的词。但不管我是否完全知道它是什么，我似乎就是它。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It's not easy to define poetry.
给诗歌下定义并不容易。
Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are.
判断一个人并不决定他是谁。它定义了你是谁。
I heard once that the things you own define you and I didn't want to be seen that way.
我曾经听说，你所拥有的东西定义了你，而我不想被人这样看待。
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
自由人民的第一需要是定义他们自己的术语。
Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.
你过去的错误是为了引导你，而不是定义你。
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
他很满足于用一句话来概括他的天才;灵感的百分之一，汗水的百分之九十九。