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Of course, moviegoers don’t always see anti-capitalist films as anti-capitalist: “Wall Street” was a cautionary tale, but many saw Gekko as a role model.
當然，公眾不會總是把它們當作反資本主義電影來看待：《華爾街》是一個警世故事，但很多人卻把主人公蓋柯當作楷模。
A cautionary tale set in the world of modern genetics, it stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as a pair of scientists who play dangerous games with human and animal DNA.
故事充滿寓意的以現代遺傳學為題材，阿德里安·布羅迪和薩拉·波莉在片中飾演了一對科學家，他們以人類和動物的DNA進行危險的實驗。
Often seen as a cautionary tale about the breakdown of civilization, the book details "the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart" and the horrific possibilities that lie within us all.
本書常被視為文明崩潰的警世故事，詳述了“天真的結束，人性的黑暗”，以及深藏所有人內心、令人害怕的種種可能。
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"It's a cautionary tale, but in many respects it is quite ambiguous about where it stands on the science."
So having said that about musical notation-- something about a cautionary tale about musical notation-- we should think about how it affects the way we compose music in the West and how we perform music in the West.
講完記譜法的一些,足以為戒的故事之后,我們也該想一下,它是如何影響西方音樂的作曲方式的,以及如何影響西方音樂的演奏方式
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Nobody wants to become the next cautionary tale splayed across the pages of Forbes.
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The other cautionary tale is Affymetrix, the company that used to dominate DNA chips.
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