He says, "I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are."

他说我相信我们所称作的,关于魔法的实践和哲学，我认为那是对灵魂的召唤，尽管我并不知道它们是什么“

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If Milton's true muse, or so he hopes or so he wants us to believe, has a Christian origin, then this counter-muse is unquestionably classical.

如果弥尔顿他望或想要我们相信，他真正的缪斯女神，有一个基督教的原型，那么这位与缪斯女神相对的人物毫无疑问是经典的。

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The democratic faction he tells us believes because all are equal in some respects they should be equal in all respects.

他告诉我们，民主派系相信因为所有人,在某些方面都平等,他们应该在各方面皆平等。

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We need to distinguish perhaps between what he consciously believes and what he unconsciously believes.

我们需要区别,他有意识地相信和潜意识相信的东西。

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And,as Chateaubriand said,the writer, "I don't know what we must believe but we must believe in something," and he gets down on his knees and prays.

如作家夏多布里昂所言,"我不知道我们能相信什么,但我们必须相信点什么",然后他屈膝跪下开始祈祷

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He's really saying that this equity premium is enduring and we should believe it.

他会说这个股权溢价确实存在,我们应该相信这一结论

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Well, why should we believe this?

我们为什么要相信他的观点呢

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Milton has expended, we know, a considerable amount of energy in establishing what he wants us, I am assuming, to believe is the divine authority behind the poem.

我们知道弥尔顿花费了，大量精力阐释他希望我们相信的东西，我设想，他要我们相信在这部诗篇的背后有无上神权的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Socrates tells us that when he was told this he expressed disbelief in the Oracle.

苏格拉底告诉我们，当他听到这个消息时,他表示不相信神谕。

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We might say,on one level he believes that he was mortal.

我们可以说，某程度上他相信自己会死。

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But more importantly still--those are all crucial but there's an extra ingredient as well-- he thinks he's got good reason to believe, when he dies he's going to go, basically, to what we'd call heaven.

更重要的是,当然前面几点也很重要,但是还有更重要的一点,他觉得他有理由相信,他死后他将去到一个,我们通常称为天堂的地方

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Do we believe him in this respect, I mean an important question, do we believe him again, ? is he being sincere in this or is he using this as it were a kind of rhetoric ? with which to envelope himself?

我们相信他这番言论吗，我意指一个重要的问题，我们再次自问是否要相信他，他这么说时是否诚恳,或只是利用这类的修辞,来包裹自己？

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what Tolstoy is trying to convince us of, what he's trying to argue, by illustrating the claim, I take it, that Tolstoy is making, is that most of us are actually in Ivan Ilyich's boat.

托尔斯泰试图通过这个故事，阐述给我们，要说服我们相信的东西，我认为他要说的是,我们中大多数人都像Ivan，Ilyich一样。

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