"I would be happy to hold negotiations with Syria this evening, but without preconditions and ultimatums,"

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That is to say, there's a certain set of views I hold about the issues that we'll be discussing.

那就是说，我持某一个观点,关于我们要讨论的问题。

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and I'll be able to hold a conversation with anybody really about anything.

我将能够与任何人谈任何话题。

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I want my children to be able to hold their heads high as Americans.

我希望我的孩子,作为美国人，能够昂首挺胸。

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It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

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And they're ready to go out, and Sal says: "Hold on a minute. I'll be right with you as soon as I finish this chapter," and it was one of the best chapters in the book.

他们准备出去，Sal说：,再等一分钟，我打完这一章就走,马上就好“,这是我书中最精彩的一章。

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