Why can't we just learn good moral principles at home or in a philosophy class or from a book, live according to those principles, those rules, those precepts, and leave it at that?

为什么我们不能就在家，通过哲学课或是书籍去学德原则呢？按照那些原则、规矩和戒律去生活呢？就只那样学不行吗？

If the self were the ego then indeed such precepts would be necessary, but the ego is a small part of the self. Necessary indeed, still, but less necessary than it once was.

如果自己是自我的话，那么的确这种准则是必要的，但自我是自己的一小部分。确实仍有必要，但仍然，比起它曾经的必要性，程度要低一些。

Oh, far better that she had followed Ellen and Mammy's precepts and never, never revealed that she even liked him — better anything than to be faced with this scorching shame!

啊，她要是遵照母亲和嬷嬷的教训，连一丝喜欢的意思也从不向他透露，那会好得多呢----比面对这种羞死人的场面更不知要好到哪里去了！

Toyota is well-known for its precept of genchi genbutsu (go and see for yourself), which encourages managers to investigate manufacturing problems in person.

丰田以其“现地现物”（亲自去看）的理念而闻名，该理念鼓励管理者亲自调查制造问。

One of the basic precepts of paleontology is the present is the key to the past.

古生物学的一个基本方面就是现在是了解过去的关键。

Here was a man who lived outside the faufreluches while obeying their every precept.

这是一个住在 faufreluches 之外的人，同时遵守他们的每一条戒律。

Precepts equal rules about really important things.

准则等于关于非常重要事物的规则。

But there remains a fourth weighty precept, and one not altogether detachable from the third.

但是还有第四条重要的戒律， 并且不能完全与第三条戒律分开。

Passage Two Early diagnosis has become one of the most fundamental precepts of modern medicine.

第二章 早期诊断已成为现代医学最基本的戒律之一。

Perforce, the student was thrown back on Northern precept and example; first of all, on his New England surroundings. Republican houses were few in Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. Adams aimed to create a social centre for New Englanders.

Perforce，这名学生又回到了北方的言传身教；首先，关于他在新英格兰的环境。华盛顿的共和党人很少，夫妇的目标是为新英格兰人创建一个社交中心。

It became the imperative With hindsight that urge was also a source of psychological strain and future the imitation of moral precepts as opposed to Chinese style imitation of technology required a degree of self-abligation.

事后看来，这种迫切需求也成为心理压力的来源，未来的德规范模仿与模仿中国式技术相比，需要一定程度的自我牺牲。

The precepts force people to develop new skills to work with the machine, just as humans had to enhance their numeracy to work with calculators and spreadsheets, even as those tools made many things easier.

这些规则迫使人们开发新技能来操作机器，就像人类必须提高他们的计算能力来使用计算器和电子表格一样，尽管这些工具使许多事情变得更容易。

One of the more sophisticated responses came from Paola Zambelli, another Italian scholar who was not convinced by the attempt to use Monocchio as a window into the precepts of a long-standing popular belief system.

其中一个更为复杂的回应来自另一位意大利学者帕奥拉·扎姆贝利，她并不认同利用梅诺基奥作为观察长期流行的民间信仰体系原理的窗口这一尝试。

To avoid this, the idea of thinking outside the box is used to challenge precepts and assumptions, to consider that sometimes the way to move forward is not to move forward at all.

为了避免这种情况， " 跳出框框思考" 的理念被用来挑战既定观念和假设，考虑有时前进的路恰恰是不前进。

So that's another part about the precepts that I like, because I can be, ask anybody that knows me well, I can be like, wait a minute, do this this way, right?

这就是我欣赏戒律的另一点，因为别人只要了解我，就能看出我有时会说：“等一下，这件事得这样处理，对吧？”

In any developed sport, by the time you enter that sport, most of the basic precepts, the major techniques, the major mechanical understandings of the sport are long since worked out.

在任何发展成熟的运动项目中，你进入该领域时，大多数基本原则、主要技巧以及对运动机制的主要理解早已被探索出来。

Altogether, the Old Bailey at that date was a choice illustration of the precept that whatever is, is right, an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy.

总之，老贝利法庭在时是一个体现“存在即合理” 这一原则的绝佳例证，这一格言虽显懒惰， 却如同其终极性一般无可辩驳。

Forms of what Western Christians call the Golden Rule exist in most cultures as a basic precept, so this term might be both universally understandable and acceptable.

西方基督徒所称的“黄金法则” 在大多数文化中都有其形式， 作为基本原则存在，因此这一术语可能在全球范围内既易懂又可接受。

The Israeli economic historian Avner Offer, born 1944, has documented the role of non-market precepts in modern economic life, including those of gift-giving and favors.

以色列经济历史学家阿夫纳·奥弗尔（1944年生）已记录了非市场原则在现代经济生活中的作用，包括赠礼和恩惠等行为。

You are the man-child whose soul must now be strengthened by precepts never taught in schools, but which we women have the privilege of inculcating.

你是男孩子， 现在必须通过从未在学校教授过的戒律来强化你的灵魂， 但我们妇女有特权反复灌输这些戒律。