Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and think it only right and natural that they determine what their children do with their lives.
Yet it is precisely this deceptive ease which makes language a victim of its own success, since in everyday life its triumphs are usually taken for granted.
There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable.
Often the advantages of convenient, mobile technology are both obvious and taken for granted, leaving more subtle topics for concerned discussion: are smartphones disturbing children's sleep?
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19. 这餐馆为大众喜爱是理所当然的。
The restaurant is deservedly popular.
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20. 全队表现良好，获胜是理所当然的。
The whole team was on good form and deserved the win.
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21. 他刚被选中担任这一最高职位，这是理所当然的。
He has just been chosen for the top job, and deservedly so.
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22. 现在她可以理所当然地声称自己是世界上最优秀的。
She can now legitimately claim to be the best in the world.
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23. 政客们那时总被漫画家们当作是理所当然的抨击对象。
Politicians were always considered fair game by cartoonists.
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24. 学校为这次出色的考试成绩感到骄傲，这是理所当然的。
The school was rightly proud of the excellent exam results.
Rightfully so, because it wouldn't feel safe to be completely authentic and vulnerable with some of our "friends" whom we don't actually know or with whom trust has yet to be built.
