It is what you profess. Well, the thesis is also, another way to think of it, an answer to a question.

它就是你要表达的东西，这个论文也是，另一种思考它的方式，关于一个问题的答案。

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or that you hope that somebody else acts in a certain way.

另一种是表达你希望其他人采取某种行动。

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Well, Freud pretty quickly figures out that what little Hans is doing is finding a way of expressing his frustration about the way in which his mother leaves the room; in other words, his mother is not always there for him.

弗洛伊德很快就发现小汉斯其实是在,找另一种方法,来表达自己对妈妈离开房间,的种种不满;,换句话说，他妈妈并不能时时刻刻陪着他。

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Most languages around the world have a different word for luck and risk--or luck and fortune.

世上的大多数语言,对运气和风险,或者说运气和机遇,都有另一种表达方式

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But minds are just a way of talking about the abilities of the body.

但是心灵只不过是肉体能力的,另一种表达方式

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Another situation where you can use "I wish" is when you express regret, a desire to stay longer, for example.

另一种使用“I wish”的情况是当你表达遗憾的时候，例如，希望多待一段时间。

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Another situation where you would use the "you have to" pattern is when you express what you don't have to do.

另一种使用“you have to”句型的情况是要表达那些不需要做的事情。

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In another situation, you can use the "I need" pattern to express what somebody else needs to do.

在另一种语境中，你也可以用“I need”句型来表达其他人做某事的必要。

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Because if B was just another word for, another way of talking about, A, then to imagine A existing but B not existing would be imagining A existing but-- well, B is just A--A not existing.

因为如果B只是,A的另一种表达方式,那么认为A存在而,B不存在就是认为A存在但,B,也就是A,却不存在

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