Aristotle's distinction seems to be not only empirical again based on the factual distribution of powers.

亚里士多德的区别似乎,不只是根据经验的，或说,根据事实的权力分配。

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Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition.

他们在正义上的专业训练，只是他们的专业,或说自命表达其自负与野心。

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just empirically speaking about the Harvard students, looking the trends and statistics-- empirically speaking, Americans are the most generous people in the world.

或只是说哈佛学生，根据发展趋势和统计，美国人是世界上最慷慨的人。

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Is he sincere in saying this, in making this point or his he somehow being ironical in his use of the religious tone ? or the religious register?

他说那些话时，是否诚恳地反应其论点,或他只是故做讽刺,才使用那些宗教论调,或是宗教语言？

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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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