to reform

基本解释

Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it.
他们的目的不是要改革生命，而是要认识生命。
It is a diversion from the struggle to reform a country with few institutions and which has not held elections in more than half a century.
从斗争到改革一个只有几个机构，并且在半个多世纪历从未举行过选举的国家，确实是一个转变。
In people’s ardour to rebuild, once-taboo ideas are emerging on how to reform and deregulate not just the damaged areas but the country at large.
人们重建心切，曾经一度讳莫如深的观点也开始被重提，以对不仅是受灾地区还有整个国家进行改革和解除管制。

Those challenges included an economic downturn, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a promise to reform the health care system.
Plato's judgment seems to be "you need to reform yourself " before you can think about reforming others."
柏拉图的判断似乎是,“你必需自我改革,才能想到改革他人“
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Socrates understands that those who want to reform others must reform themselves, but many who've tried to imitate him have been less careful.
苏格拉底了解到,那些想改革他人者,必需先自我改革，但许多尝试,模仿他的人并没有仔细分辨这一点。
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Sometimes the slow and steady approach to reform is better than being drastic and bold.
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