The reason why literacy is required of everyone is because we don't live to 200.

为何每个人都需要文化素养？,因为我们活不到200岁,我们出于对外界的好奇。

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So if it's so easy to imagine that for the rat, why not for us?

即然能简单地想老鼠，为何不能推及人？

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Most people today are attracted to the study of politics because they are interested in things they've read about in newspapers or seen on TV.

所为又为何,大部份对政治研究感兴趣的人,是因为他们,对读过之报章或电视报导感兴趣。

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Subjects who were asked to do ten positive features and then later ranked the person lower and then asked, "Why did you rank the person lower?"

被要求列出十个优点的被试,降低了所爱之人的地位,接着，当其被问到，“你为何将爱人的地位降低了“的时候“

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That line had clearly been crossed and helps explain why it was that in a country in which there weren't ten people who wanted a republic in 1789.

绝对主义和专制主义的区别已经不存在,这解释了为何在这个国家,1789年时只有不到十人想建立共和制

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It's so obvious, why didn't they have them before?

这就很显而易见，为何之前的人没想到呢？

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When and why did some Israelites adopt a Yahweh-only position, and seek to differentiate what they would call a pure Yahwism from the cult of Baal, for example?

何时，为何以色列人采纳了耶和华，唯一的地位，并且试图与他们所说的纯耶和华崇拜区别,比如说，与Baal宗教？

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How is it that some people came to acquire this capacity for rational self-control that is necessary for freedom ? and others seem to lack it?

为何有些人,会拥有这种理性自控的能力,那也是自由的必备条件,但有些人却似乎不具备这种能力？

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Now I'm giving you my reasons for believing in there're no souls.

现在我要说说,为何我们该相信人没有灵魂。

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Not why did the Athenians bring Socrates to trial?

不是为何雅典人审判苏格拉底？

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Why study just these thinkers and not others?

为何只研读这些思想家，而不是其它人？

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