In the abstract, the president's authority to declare a national emergency is not in question.

理论上，特朗普宣布进入紧急状态的权利是无可置疑的。

I get that concept, but only in the abstract.

我明白了这个概念，但只是抽象的。

Few of us think about civic life in the abstract.

我们中很少有人抽象地思考公民生活。

And even if I know all these things in the abstract, I still can't help it.

即使我抽象地知道了所有这些事情，我仍然无法控制。

NIMBYism is regularly characterized as a case of revealed preferences: Talk is cheap, and support for policies in the abstract is worthless.

人们通常认为邻避主义存在一种公开的偏好：空谈无用，支持抽象的政策也无用。

Now, all of this is easy to salute in the abstract, especially from these rarefied heights, but it's hard to protect and practice.

现在，所有这些都很容易抽象化，尤其是站在罕见的高度，但却很难保持和实践。

Chu's work has been compared to that of Jackson Pollock, a major artist in the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s.

Chu的作品被比作20世纪40年代和50年代抽象表现主义运动的主要艺术家杰克逊·波洛克的作品。

Dave and I figured out that we had spent a lot of time talking about how we would do things, but almost always in the abstract.

戴夫和我发现，我们的确是花了很多时间来讨论孩子问题，但都是纸上谈兵。

And in the formal operational stage, at about age 12, Piaget said, kids begin to think in the abstract and use logic and critical thinking.

皮亚杰说，在正式运算阶段，大约在 12 岁时，孩子们开始进行抽象思考，并使用逻辑和批判性思维。

And I actually think if the Conservatives were to take that lesson, that would be a mistake, because I think in the abstract, people love the idea of the green transition.

事实上，我认为如果保守党吸取这个教训，那将是一个错误， 因为我认为抽象地说，人们喜欢绿色转型的想法。

But here's the thing, here's the other side of it, for me to speak in the abstract, I think the one thing you really have to be armed with as an actor is courage.

但问题是这样，这是它的另一面，对我来说，抽象来讲，我认为作为演员，你真正需要武装的一样东西就是勇气。

To him the houses, the willows, the obscure fields beyond, were apparently regarded not as brick residences, pollards, meadows; but as human dwellings in the abstract, vegetation, and the wide dark world.

对他来说，房子、柳树、远处不知名的田野，显然不被认为是砖房、庭院、草地；而是作为人类居住在抽象、植被和广阔的黑暗世界中。

Honnold's free solo ascent is not remarkable in the abstract — man accomplishes feat — but as a particular physical and mental trial resulting in a triumph of humankind in collaboration with nature.

Honnold 的独立自由攀登在抽象上并不引人注目——人类完成了壮举——而是作为一种特殊的身体和精神考验，导致人类与自然合作取得胜利。

A useful starting place is to ask ourselves perhaps in the company of a large sheet of paper, a pen and a free afternoon what sort of people in the abstract put us off and what kinds excite us.

一个有用的起点是问问我们自己， 也许在一大张纸、一支笔和一个自由的下午的陪伴下，抽象地讲什么样的人让我们厌恶， 什么样的人让我们兴奋。