Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

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I don't know, I didn't go to business school so I'm not exactly sure how it works.

我不知道，我没在商学院上过学，所以我也不清楚它到底是怎样的。

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She can't get in to heaven anyway. So she says: "Dear Mary: I am a bastard and a bastard shall not enter the kingdom of heaven as we all know. But I have this personality that makes boys follow me.

反正她是怎样也升不进天堂的，所以，她写道，亲爱的玛丽：,我是一个私生子，我不能进入天堂,众所周知，但我拥有吸引男孩的独特个性。

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And if the best that the soul theorist has is, "Maybe we need this to explain something that I don't see how you guys can explain, maybe this would help, though I can't quite see how either," that's not a very compelling argument.

如果灵魂主义者最为充分的理由是,或许我们需要灵魂来解释些,我认为你们不能解释的东西,或许这样能有些帮助,尽管我也不清楚怎样用灵魂解释,这就不是一个很有说服力的论证

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So I can't really speak to the specifics of what was going on But bureaucracy as we know is always with us and one of the problems of Afghnastan was getting things done quickly, and a lot of mistakes were made because they try to so things too quickly and didn't think through the process.

所以我也不知道情况到底是怎样的,但是官僚作风是一直存在的,阿富汗存在一个问题就是,很多事情完成的太快，以至于出现了很多错误,这是因为他们想要尽快把事情做完,没有考虑过程。

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