No stranger to teenage romances Weitz says the appeal of vampires puzzles him.

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You say, "Yeah, here's a math problem I haven't solved before, but so what? I've just done so much math, " it holds no appeal to me before."

你会说“是的，我没解决过这个数学问题，那又怎样？我研究了太久的数学，我对它失去了兴感“

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We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.

换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。

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There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

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Although we need to offer a story about what makes the parts work when they're connected with each other and interacting in the right way, there's no need to appeal to anything beyond the physical.

尽管我们还需要探讨,是什么因素,使得各部分在正确的连接方式下,可以正常工作,但无需诉诸于物质之外的事物

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So unlike those modern dualists who think we need to appeal to something immaterial in order to explain bodily sensations, Socrates thinks no, no, the body takes care of all the bodily sensations, all the desirings and the wantings and the emotions and the feelings and the cravings.

而现代的二元论者,认为需要用非物质的东西,来解释肉体上的感觉,但苏格拉底不这么想,他认为肉体负责所有的肉体上的感觉,所有的欲望,需求,感情,感觉和渴望

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