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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.
当然，公众不会总是把它们当作反资本主义电影来看待：《华尔街》是一个警世故事，但很多人却把主人公盖柯当作楷模。
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.
故事充满寓意的以现代遗传学为题材，阿德里安·布罗迪和萨拉·波莉在片中饰演了一对科学家，他们以人类和动物的DNA进行危险的实验。
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.
本书常被视为文明崩溃的警世故事，详述了“天真的结束，人性的黑暗”，以及深藏所有人内心、令人害怕的种种可能。
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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.
讲完记谱法的一些,足以为戒的故事之后,我们也该想一下,它是如何影响西方音乐的作曲方式的,以及如何影响西方音乐的演奏方式
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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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