Failing to understand our true nature, we revert again and again to the seeming reality of appearances.

如果不能明了我们的真实本质，我们就会一次又一次折回到看似真实的表面现象里。

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I listen to the tone that they speak, ahead seeming already versed understand, this period accident's appointment is really the late lament reunion, exceedingly from amused.

我听他们说话的口气，似乎之前就已熟识，此次意外相见实乃故人重逢，不胜自喜。

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Seeming not to understand, the Afghans wave cars past the checkpoint without searching any of them.

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The problem was empathy, his seeming inability to understand what ordinary Americans were going through in the recession.

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