This vision of the founders served as a basis for asserting that freedom was a national moral imperative, and that the United States Constitution was an antislavery document.

国父们的这种远见成为了主张自由是国家道德义务的基础，美国宪法是一份反奴隶制的文件。

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Diamond interprets them as power displays by rival chieftains who, trapped on a remote little island, lacked other ways of asserting their dominance.

戴蒙德将其解释为敌对酋长的权力展示，他们被困在一个偏远的小岛上，没有其他方式可以维护自己的统治地位。

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But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a growing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship.

但他们很少（如果有过的话）公开将这一观点进一步发扬，声称不断增长的制造业鼓励了手工技艺的发展。

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As a way of asserting that his medical studies (a concession to his physician father) were in vain, Berlioz threw himself out the window of a dissecting lab.

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