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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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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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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