Suppose somebody said, "Look, I spent 20 years living in France, and then I came back to the United States.

假设某人说,我在法国住了二十年,之后我回到美国

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Now, it's Milton's annotators who tell us that the word prevent means "to come before, to anticipate," and on some level it obviously means that and that goes without question.

弥尔顿的注解告诉我们阻止一词的含义,“在某人之前到达，预期“,从某种程度上说它就是那个意思，这毫无疑问。

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One belief,even one very unusual belief's not enough to make somebody Napoleon, according to the personality theory.

仅仅一个信念，即使与众不同，也不足以使某人为拿破仑，人格理论是这么说的。

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Now it's possible somebody said both these sentences before, but you probably have not heard them.

有可能某人曾说过这两句话,可你们却并没听到过

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Well, you don't literally mean that somebody rewarded you, like gave you pellets and stuff.

你并不是想说某人会奖励你，比如给你点吃的或是奖品。

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You can imagine somebody who says, "Look, it would be better never to have had the taste at all " than to have the taste and then not be allowed to have the entire meal."

你可以想象会某人说，“尝一口然后被禁止吃完整顿饭,还不如从来就没尝过一口呢“

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