Why is the choice between what you believe you know and an unknown 'real' truth so fascinating?

为什么这样一个选择——在你所相信的真实与未知而又“千真万确”的真相之间的选择——如此引人？

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Sleeping without a dream makes us feel empty. Maybe the only way to console us is having a warm quilt and an unknown dream.

也许只有夜晚一床热和的棉被和一个好梦，才可以慰藉天天有太多不如意的我们。

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Here, over subsequent years, he built a chapel, decorating it with his own muscular sculptures of Noah, the Virgin and an Unknown Soldier.

随后几年，他在此处修建了小教堂，并装饰有他创作的人体雕塑，诺亚、圣母和一位无名英雄。

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"You can have that test, but it can't be an exclusive test because of the nature of the patent laws which are to protect new and unknown inventions."

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I could take an unknown gas and put it in and measure it and then say, wow, those are the lines that are characteristic of sodium.

我取一种未知气体，把它放到管里,然后检测它，哇，这些线是钠的特征。

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The mathematical theory of probability was unknown until that time and you can see that insurance suddenly made an appearance at that time.

在那之前,概率的数学理论,是不存在的,而随着概率论的出现,保险业也突然出现了

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Officials say up to 100 armed militants and an unknown number of students remain inside.

NPR: Pakistani Army Commander Dies in Mosque Siege

Nine Iraqi soldiers and an unknown number of Ministry of Interior personnel have been injured.

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Bitter, because Hurricane Sandy caused the deaths of thirty-eight people, and an unknown number have lost their homes.

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