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idea · concept · philosophy · theory

lǐ niàn
WordHSK 7-9
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The concept doesn’t make sense.
理念没有道理。
We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words – within our borders, and around the world.
Adopt his concepts.
采用他的理念。
The concept of “Internet addiction” implies that “the Internet” is some sort of definable activity.
What I’m getting at is that Zamenhof not only built a linguistic object, but that behind that was an idea — an idea of brotherhood, a pacifist idea. That strength of an ideal — for which Esperantists were even persecuted under Nazism and Stalinism — is still conserved by the community of Esperantists. One cannot say that it has failed, but one thing needs to be said: the reason why any language is successful is always indefinable.
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