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shí jiàn实践hé和lǐ lùn理论tóng yàng同样zhòng yào重要，dàn但wǒ men我们qīng xiàng倾向yú于zhòng shì重视hòu zhě后者ér而hū lüè忽略qián zhě前者。
实践和理论同样重要，但我们倾向于重视后者而忽略前者。
Practice is as important as theory, but we are apt to value the latter and despise the former.
独立的句子和文章中的句子的区别在于后者具备上下文。
The difference between a standalone sentence and a sentence in the middle of an essay is that the latter has context.
比起歌舞伎，我更喜欢能乐表演，因为我觉得后者比前者优雅。
I prefer Noh to Kabuki because I find the former to be more elegant than the latter.