They still live in the cave , to be sure , but they have ceased to be helplessly fettered to dubious and unexamined conceptions .
当然,他们还生活在洞穴中,可已经不再被不可靠和未经检验的观念完全束缚。
Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves , and not anything else , and by the immobility of our conceptions of them .
或许那些在我们周围固定的东西已经被我们静止的观念认定为它们就是它们自己,并不会是其它任何东西。
Individuals also are limited by their values and those conceptions of purpose that influence them in making their decisions , and these tend to be shaped by their organizational experience .
Explorers from columbus to cook discovered new plants , new animals and even new human beings that challenged traditional assumptions and conceptions of the world .
I for one tend to laugh at how ridiculous these conceptions are in light of today 's political correctness .
我赞同有人从如今的政治正确出发倾向于认为这些观念非常可笑的观点。
If the japanese nurse old-fashioned conceptions about their national identity , so do foreigners .
如果日本人将他们的古老观念作为国家的身份,那外国人也会这么认为。
The affliction of the reader can scarcely be blamed when he is expected to consider himself hemmed in by an impervious circle of purely subjective conceptions .