Gadamer says, and here again he's attacking historicism: The text that is understood historically is forced to abandon its claim that it is uttering something true.

伽达默尔在攻击历史相对主义时这样说道：,文本如果放在历史的角度理解,那么这样的理解肯定不是绝对正确的。

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Will not even philosophers, one might ask, given the possibility of absolute power ? be tempted to abuse their positions?

难道哲学家，有人可能问到，如果他们拥有绝对的力量时,难道不会想要滥用职权吗？

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But they tried to do that only when they needed to do so to keep their absolute control.

不过他们只有需要保持绝对权力时,才会这么做。

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And when we talk about size, I'm again just going to say the stipulation we're not talking about an absolute classical concept here, but in general we're going to picture it being much further away from the nucleus as we move up in terms of n.

当我们说到尺寸时，我们只是说――,经典的绝对的概念，而是它大约,离原子核有多远。

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We go to these concerts and we have to be so quiet.

我们去听这些演奏会时都要保持绝对安静

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Given the very different route that Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden and France went with a centralization of absolute rule, why did it work out so differently for England/Britain and the Netherlands?

在选择政体时,当普鲁士,奥地利,俄国,瑞典,法国,都伴随着中央集权走上绝对主义国家的道路,为什么英国和荷兰会如此与众不同呢

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It can't be that what's going on in near-death experiences is that people are reporting about what it's like to be dead because-- so the objection says-- they never really died.

人们所说的自身死亡时,所产生的濒死体验,是绝对不可能发生的,因为,这种反驳这样说道,他们没有真正死掉

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So, in all of this, what he does is he makes, to use an expression that I've already used before in the context of absolutism, he makes the Boyars, while he's building his navy and expanding Russia, he makes the Boyar junior partners in absolutism.

所以,通过所有的这些事情,用我之前用过的一个词来形容,他使得波维尔们,当他在建海军和扩张领土时,他使得波维尔贵族臣服在他的绝对权威之下

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