The mockery you might say mockery of Socrates remains one of the sincerest forms of flattery; they took him very seriously.

这些嘲弄，可以这么说,对苏格拉底的嘲弄,仍是最真诚的奉承型式之一；,他们很把他当一回事。

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He throws his high prophetic talents into the construction ; of the Saint Peter speech; and in 1645, historical circumstances being what they were, he was able to look back at this passage and actually claim that it had been a genuinely prophetic utterance.

他把自己预示的才能投入在,圣彼得的演说之中;,在164年，历史背景如此复杂，他能够重新回顾这段,并且做出一段真诚的预知性的论调。

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