他们试图说服我收回我的话。

They tried to persuade me to retract my words.

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他们试图说服他参加到他们行列中去。

They tried to argue him into joining them.

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但是目前尚不清楚的是，究竟这是他们的真实想法，或只是他们试图说服自己曾经的选择是正确的。

But what has been unclear - until now - is whether that is what they really think, or whether they are trying to convince themselves that they have made the right choice.

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And people who study this often claim to be studying neural network modeling to try to build smart machines by modeling them after brains.

神经网络的研究者们,通常会说他们是在研究神经网络模型,试图通过模仿大脑反应,而制造出智能机器

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But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

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