As Xenophanes, the Presocratic free-thinker, wrote 2500 years ago, "If Lion could think, their Gods would have a mane and roar."

正像前苏格拉底时代的自由思想家色诺芬尼在2500年前写下的：“如果狮子会思考，它们的上帝会有鬃毛和狮吼。”

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For how could you for a moment think of shutting up a lion with you in the farmyard, when you know that you shake in your shoes if you only hear his roar at ever so great a distance?

因为，你知道，你平时只要听到远处的狮子吼声，你就会下得浑身发抖；你怎么能一时心血来潮，把狮子连同你自己关在院子里呢？

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For how could you for a moment think of shutting up a lion with you in the farmyard, when you know that you shake in your shoes if you only hear his roar at ever so great a distance?

因为，你知道，你平时只要听到远处的狮子吼声，你就会下得浑身发抖；你怎么能一时心血来潮，把狮子连同你自己关在院子里呢？

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