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实用
Practical
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
数学存在的时间越长，它就变得越抽象，因此也可能变得越实用。
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
不实用并不意味着不值得创造。有时候美和现实生活中的魔法就足够了。
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
市场根据技术的实际效果来判断技术，根据技术是否成功或失败来判断技术。
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
我选择索尼经典，不仅仅是因为他们的实践经验，不仅仅是因为他们在营销方面的智慧，更主要是因为他们的诚信。
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
因此，千万不要失去一个机会，敦促一个实际的开始，无论多么小，因为在这种情况下，芥末种子发芽和生根的频率是惊人的。
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
一个实际的植物学家第一眼就能分辨出地球上不同地区的植物，但他却不知道自己能从哪些标记中发现它们。
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
我反对自由主义的理由是，自由主义是把最高层次的哲学思想而不是政治原则引入到生活的实际事务中去。
I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
我喜欢从事实际工作和团队合作的人。获得荣誉并不那么重要。更重要的是找到有效的方法。这是一种更好的生活方式。
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
作为一种实际行动的工具，法律对其所处时代的智慧作出反应，虽然这种智慧可能是错误的，但它有时与这种智慧或激情背道而驰，将所接受的价值观发扬光大。
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
我一直是个暗地里热爱表演的人。我妈妈很实际。她从来没有，从来没有限制我们的梦想，总是告诉我们，我们可以做任何事或成为任何事。然后我说:“也许我想成为一名演员。”她说，“也许不是那样。”
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.
以下是公民联盟的实际影响。联合公民组织的意思是，公司投入数亿美元在电视广告、广播广告和其他形式的广告上，以击败那些站出来挑战他们的候选人。
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A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
我的教学实践的一部分是提供演示性的实践经验。
I am very down to earth and practical.
我是一个脚踏实地、讲求实际的人。
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
家务中有一些实用的小事情没有人真正理解。
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
老年人喜欢实用的东西，而浮躁的年轻人只渴望耀眼的东西。
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
除了失败提供的实用知识，还有重要的人格价值。
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
我太实际了，不敢贸然从事喜剧事业。