The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

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Let's hang on for a little while longer to a set of conditions where we will maintain constant entropy, namely constant entropy and pressure.

我们先继续考虑,保持熵不变的情况，即保持熵和压强不变。

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Now in this particular case, these animals will not overeat on the healthy balanced food and won't gain excess weight, they'll maintain a normal weight.

在这种情况下,它们并不会吃过量的健康食品,因此不会变胖,所以一直保持着标准的体重

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God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

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All of our texts that we will read--the Republic the Politics the Prince the Social Contract have different views on the qualities of statecraft and what are those qualities necessary to found and maintain states that we will be considering.

我们所有将阅读的教材中，包括《理想国》,《政治论》，《君主论》，《民约论》,都有不同的权术特性观点,哪些特性是建立及维持国家所必需,我们都将加以思量。

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