That sounds funny, but in a sense, that is--we have to define the sense in which it's irrelevant.

听起来很有意思,但从某种意义上讲,我们必须说清楚不相关性的含义

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There are so many South's today that it has rendered this question in some ways almost irrelevant, but, in other ways, of course not.

现在南方有许多的东西,看似和这个问题无关,从某种角度而言甚至是毫不相关,但是,换个角度来说 当然不是这样的

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