in itself

基本解释

It is urgent to clarify the thing-in-itself and the core of Chinese curriculum in both theory and practice.
明确语文课程的本体与核心成为语文课程理论和实践的当务之急。
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In his reading, Marx takes man, civil society, practice, the Thing-in-itself, historical consciousness and liberty as the basic positive elements of classical German philosophy.
在马克思的理论视野中，人、市民社会、实践、自在之物、历史意识和自由等问题构成了德国古典哲学的基本遗产。
On the objectivity of the laws of social history, western historical determinists asserted: there are objective-in-itself laws in the social history, while non-determinists denied them.
关于社会历史规律的客观性问题，西方历史决定论者承认社会历史有自在客观性规律；

The Florida,for example, captured more than thirty ships before being captured itself off the coast of Brazil in eighteen sixty-four.
Poetry is constantly getting itself in trouble in all sorts of ways-- on page 768, for example.
诗歌不断给自己制造麻烦-,比如在课本768页。
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The Roman Senate, in the late part of the Republic-- yes--started dividing itself into two sort of parties; not official parties, but factions.
罗马元老院，共和国晚期。。。,分裂为两个派;,不是正规党派，只是小派系。
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Such is the essence of the world, the nameless thing-in-itself, a melange of a priori truths that reside dormant within each man from the moment he is born.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

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But toDerrida, text is play of thing-in-itself, and declines interpretation.
而在德里达看未文本是一种自在自为的游戏，它拒绝解释。