I for one tend to laugh at how ridiculous these conceptions are in light of today 's political correctness .
我赞同有人从如今的政治正确出发倾向于认为这些观念非常可笑的观点。
If the japanese nurse old-fashioned conceptions about their national identity , so do foreigners .
如果日本人将他们的古老观念作为国家的身份,那外国人也会这么认为。
The affliction of the reader can scarcely be blamed when he is expected to consider himself hemmed in by an impervious circle of purely subjective conceptions .
Many of the discoveries that launched the scientific revolution were greeted with great opposition because of their challenge to traditional and religious conceptions of the universe .