on principle

基本解释

On principle, I had nothing against the idea.
原则上，我并不反对这个主意。
What made that impossible were the choices he made — choices made on principle and for the love of truth and liberty.
而他基于原则和对自由与真理的热爱所做的选择，使得这种成功永无可能。
Even as Clinton maneuvered to form alliances with the GOP, he stood up to them on principle when he disagreed with their views and took political advantage of their miscalculations.
即使当克林顿试图与共和党结盟时，如果不同意他们的观点他会在原则上对抗，并从他们的失算中获取政治优势。

Republicans oppose the health care effort on principle, arguing that it represents too much government intervention in the health care system and will bankrupt the country with its high cost.
That includes Pauli Exclusion Principle and includes Hund's Rule and so on.
包括保利不相容原理,和洪特原理等等。
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Pauli So, here, Pauli came out on top, we say, and he's known for the Pauli exclusion principle, which tells us that no two electrons in the same atom can have the same four quantum numbers.
在这里是，他因为Pauli不相容原理而出名，这个原理是说同一个原子中的两个电子,不能有相同的第四量子数。
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In 2008, they agreed on principle to resolve the feud by jointly developing gas fields.
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