Be not content with the commonplace in character.

不要满足于普通的共性。

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Another reason for the commonplace practice is a financial incentive for brands exporting goods to America.

这种普遍做法的另一个原因是对向美国出口商品的品牌有经济激励。

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But that their minds are not different from our own is demonstrated by the fact that the hard-won discoveries of scientists like Kepler or Einstein become the commonplace knowledge of schoolchildren.

但是，他们的头脑与我们的头脑并没有什么不同，这一点已被一个事实所证明，即像开普勒或爱因斯坦这样的科学家们的来之不易的发现，已成为小学生们的常识。

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Kingsley was fascinated by how the story explores mental health care from half-a-century ago when techniques now viewed as barbaric were commonplace.

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I think there's a connection here between the image from the commonplace book and the treatment in Milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.

我认为,笔记书中的形象,和弥尔顿《面具》中有关童贞和无语这一共同现象,是有联系的。

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The touching of the Lady's lip touches us in other ways as well though, at least in this lecture, because we remember that unfortunate, that horrifying image of the lip that Milton had noted in the commonplace book.

碰触女士的嘴唇也在其他方面感动了我们，至少在这一讲中，因为我们记得那不幸的，充满畏惧的嘴唇的形象,那是弥尔顿在笔记中提到的。

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This turns on its head the commonplace assumption that societies reduced their birthrates as they got wealthier.

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The ambiguity of the horror, the glamour and the commonplace are not accidental.

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That's why later this year, some PC makers will introduce lines of desktop machines that depart from the commonplace beige box.

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