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我们尽可谈论美的事物，但美本身却是抽象的。

We may talk of beautiful things but beauty itself is abstract .

村子本身很美，但周围的田野相当单调。

The village itself is pretty , but the surrounding countryside is rather dull .

每一幅画都必须根据其本身的价值来评判。

Each painting must be judged on its own merits .

公司本身陷入了困境。

The company has got itself into difficulties .

准备婚礼要几周，而婚礼仪式本身还不到一小时。

The wedding preparations take weeks but the actual ceremony takes less than an hour .

这种药本身无害，但与酒同服就危险了。

The drug is not harmful per se , but is dangerous when taken with alcohol .

她随一支摇滚乐队演唱，但她本身也是爵士乐手。

She sings with a rock band , but she 's also a jazz musician in her own right .

该和平计划本身违反了基本人权。

The peace plan as it stands violates basic human rights .

今天的选举本身并不是很重要。

Today 's elections are of no great importance in themselves .

经济变化本身对他并没有吸引力。

Economic change for its own sake did not appeal to him

他辩称杀人犯本身已经丧失了生存的权利。

He argues that murderers forfeit their own right to life .

对这些人来说，土地与生活本身有着不可分割的密切关系。

For these people , land is inextricably interwoven with life itself

爆炸对办公大楼本身几乎没有造成结构上的损坏。

The explosion caused little structural damage to the office towers themselves .

甚至有一段关于谋杀本身的闪回。

There is even a flashback to the murder itself .

手术本身耗时短且没有痛苦。

The operation itself is a brief , painless procedure .

事实上，工人工作并不是为了满足本身的需要。

In practice , workers do not work to satisfy their needs .

必须区分考古学本身和以科学为基础的考古学。

A distinction must be made between archaeology proper and science-based archaeology .

死亡本身就是自相矛盾的，既是终结也是开始。

Death itself is a paradox , the end yet the beginning .

她对车子本身没有进行半点养护。

She did none of the maintenance on the vehicle itself

选择与你本身的肤色相衬的颜色。

Choose shades which tone in with your natural colouring .

宗教对她来说是与生活本身紧密联系在一起的。

Religion was for her inextricably linked with life itself .

外交部长的介入本身就是取得进展的一个标志。

The involvement of the foreign ministers was itself a sign of progress

任何模型都无法完全模拟自然本身。

No model can ever be a perfect analogue of nature itself .

房子本身有三层高，绕着一个庭院而建。

The house itself is three stories high and arranged around a courtyard

政府本身几乎不了解工业污染的程度。

The government itself has little information on the extent of industrial pollution

昨天的投票本身就是放弃先前所留退路的做法。

Yesterday 's vote itself was a retreat from an earlier fallback position .

这项立法本身就是勉强妥协的产物。

The legislation represents in itself an unhappy compromise .

这些油画除了作为古董，本身没有什么内在价值。

The paintings have no intrinsic value except as curiosities

维和行动本身的特点决定了预先制订计划很困难。

Peacekeeping , by its nature , makes pre-planning difficult

这些花也许只开一天，但植物本身却很长寿。

The flowers may only last a day but the plants are long-lived .