Some people find that a psychologically difficult thing to accept, but I've believed that pretty much all my life, so I'm quite comfortable with it.

有些人会觉得心理上,很难接受这一点，但在我的人生中，我一直相信这一点，我也坦然接受这一点。

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Do you think there is something about the people who in a situation of depravation that makes them more inclined towards acknowledging God's presence?

你觉得是否有这样一类人,不健全的人生使得他们,更愿意去相信上帝的存在？

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But the best life, Thrasymachus believes, it doing maximum injustice to others, doing whatever you like.

而他相信，最好的人生是尽极对他人做出不公，为所欲为。

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Paradise Lost as a whole clearly wants us to believe that God has foreknowledge and it also clearly wants us to believe that we have free will, but the similes seem just as often to open up and to question the poem's doctrinal conclusions.

整体来说很清楚地是想让我们相信,上帝具有先知的能力,并且还想让我们相信人生来有自由的意志，但是这些比喻看起来只是为我们揭露,并质疑了诗歌本身的学理上的总结。

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