And having diversity of supply is a good thing in itself.

同时，分化供应商本身就比较有利。

Even without those side-effects, though, a bilingual child's connection to relatives and another culture is a good thing in itself.

即使没有这些附加优势，掌握双语的儿童和亲人以及另一种文化的连接本身就是一件好事。

(1) Kant's 'thing in itself' is identical in definition with the physical object, namely, it is the cause of sensations.

(1)康德的“自在之物”在定义上与物理对象是同一的，即它是感觉的原因。

So environment is not a separate thing in itself, but the result of perceptive patterns, and these are determined by psychological structure.

所以环境本身并不是独立的事物，而是感知模式的结果，而这些是由心理结构决定的。

" That would not improve my prospect, " said Lydgate, rising and speaking bitterly, " even if it were a more agreeable thing in itself" .

“那不会改善我的前景，”利德盖特说着站起来，带着怨恨说道，“即使这本身是一件更令人愉快的事情。”

Consciousness therefore is not a thing in itself. It is a dimension of action. It is an almost miraculous state, made possible by what I choose to call a series of creative dilemmas.

因此，意识本身不是一样东西。它是行动的一个维度。是一种几乎神奇的状态，是由我选择称之为一系列创造性的困境，而成为可能的。

But if thinking is not a good thing in itself, if intellectual activity is not worth while for its own sake, will the man of the world tell us what is?

但是，如果思考本身不是一件好事，如果智力活动本身不值得，那么世俗的人会告诉我们什么是好事吗？

Thus in spite of the existence of a priori knowledge, we cannot know anything about the thing in itself or about what is not an actual or possible object of experience.

因此，尽管存在先验知识， 但我们无法了解关于事物本身的任何信息， 也不能了解不是实际或可能的经验对象的事物。

Not only is the girl to bring a child into the world, a thing in itself surely hard enough, but she is to be treated as a criminal for that very fact.

女孩不仅要把孩子带到这个世界上，这本身就够难的了，而且就因为这个事实，她还要被当作罪犯对待。

The phenomenon, being a joint product of us and the thing in itself, is sure to have those characteristics which are due to us, and is therefore sure to conform to our a priori knowledge.

现象作为我们与自在之物的共同产物，必然具有我们应有的那些特征，因此必然符合我们的先验知识。

In the properties deduced from the definition it is not identical, since Kant held (in spite of some inconsistency as regards cause) that we can know that none of the categories are applicable to the 'thing in itself'.

在从定义推导出的属性中，它并不相同，因为康德认为（尽管在原因方面存在一些不一致）我们可以知道没有任何范畴适用于“自在之物”。