in a vacuum

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介词短语
  1. Divorced from its proper context and therefore suffering from incomplete analysis.
    — He is fond of saying that "nothing happens in a vacuum", by which he means that external factors always matter in at least some ways; sometimes he exaggerates this principle by claiming polemically that "there are no coincidences".
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