Tests are tools. They are indirect and imperfect measures of what we know.

考试只是工具，它们只是间接和有瑕疵地衡量我们了解知识标。

The federal government's cyber-defences are imperfect, too.

联邦政府防御也同样存在漏洞。

Or, I reject you when you're imperfect, because I judge by appearance.

或者 因不完美而抛弃你因为我以貌取物。

Our own reality is comprised of imperfect copies of ideal Forms.

我们现实世界是由不完美理想化形式复制版组成。

The things that I think are beautiful are always the imperfect things, aren't they?

我觉得美好物也都是不完美，不是吗？

You make something rough and imperfect to get an idea of where you're headed.

你会把脑中想法通过粗略和大致工作表现出来。

We have to prioritize interactions and be OK with them being imperfect.

我们需要把互动放在第一位，接受自己不完美。

Or, more precisely, perfecting an imperfect self.

或者，地说，是完善不完美自己。

And the CHIPS, of course, is an imperfect acronym for Children of Incarcerated Parents.

当然，CHIPS 是“父母入狱子女”一个不完美首字母缩写词。

If you start editing your life, you stop appreciating how imperfect it can be.

如果开始编辑你生活，你就不再欣赏生活不完美。

They make an imperfect square of cloth on a quilt.

他们会在被子上放一块不完美方形布料。

Plato argued that beyond our imperfect world was a perfect unchanging world of Forms.

柏拉图认为在我们这个不完美世界之外是一个完美不变世界形式存在。

They offer a sense of recognition, however imperfect, for your work.

它们对你工作表示了认可，尽管这种认可不完美。

You can be wrong, you know. We're all imperfect.

你知道，你可能是错。我们都不完美。

When they bring those chains out for a measurement, it is still an imperfect science.

当他们拿出链条来测量时，这仍然是一种不完美方式。

One recent theory is that consciousness is the brain's imperfect picture of its own activity.

最近一个理论认为，意识是大脑对于自身活动一种不完整呈现。

He realizes that we live in a world of imperfect knowledge.

他意识到我们生活在一个知识不完善世界里。

It was effective, Hathaway said, but imperfect.

海瑟薇说，这很有效，但并不完美。

The interaction with his virtual grandfather, despite an imperfect accent, was emotionally stirring.

尽管虚拟祖父爷爷口音并不标，但他与虚拟爷爷互动却能激起情感共鸣。

Imperfect stories are more interesting, more redemptive than heroic myths.

不完美故比英雄神话有趣，具救赎性。