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Another motive is more high-minded: the urge, as with drink and drugs, to protect humans from their own nature, by outlawing a potentially addictive activity.
另外一个动机则高尚的多：像禁酒和禁毒一样，通过将能会使人上瘾的活动非法化来保护人类远离自己的本性。
So the idea that MPs today are a work-shy bunch of fraudsters, while back then they were high-minded public servants, is just rubbish: unfair, untrue and unhelpful.
在过去他们都是高洁的公仆，今天的国会议员是一堆怕事的骗子的想法只是废话，不是事实，不公平也没有建设性。
We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.
我们踏上了正义的道路，为公民的权利和反对越南战争而前行，为此需要找到一个合适、高尚的方法做为突破口。

He thought of it as high-minded or self-important.
The problem is that not everyone is nice and not everyone is high-minded so financial markets--the success of financial markets is, in many ways, a success of regulation.
问题是并非所有人都是好人,并非所有人都是高尚的人,于是金融市场...,金融市场的成功,很大程度上来说,是监管制度的成功
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I mean I do hope that the fact that I'm interested in in rock and roll isn't perceived by some, as it may well be, to sully the ideals of the Louise Center for the arts and these high-minded things.
我当然希望，我对摇滚的,喜爱，在一些人眼中，不会玷污,路易斯艺术中心这种高雅的理念。
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But what could be justified as high-minded academic discourse suddenly had all-too-much political relevance.
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