How can the opposite often result?

事如何常与愿违？

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For if I say that this is to disobey the god and because of this it is impossible to keep quiet, you will not be persuaded by me on the grounds that I am being ironic.

因为假设我说那是违悖神意,所以我无法保静默，你们不会被我说服,反而会以为我语带讽刺；

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That people were conceived, whether by nature or by God or even by evolution, with a certain order to them; some born to do this and some born to do that and some born to do that.

即人的等级已经被设定好了,不管是被自然还是上帝,还是进化使然,天命不可违,有人天生做这种事,有人天生做那种事等等

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And we've all been in this, where we know that it's shameful to look at this, just drive on, as Socrates would say " "mind your own business," and yet at the same time we feel, even against our will, compelled to look and think about that.

而我们都经历过这码子事，我们都明白那是不道德的人才看，我们本应继续驶离，就像苏格拉底会说的,“管好你自己的事“,但同时我们就算是违意，仍不得不看，并满脑子想着要看。

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