We have no idea what this menacing contraption actually is supposed to look like or what it's actually intended to signify, but we can know, I think, with some certainty that it's not scrannel.

我们无从得知这个威胁性的装置,实际上是什么样或者要代表什么，但是我们可以通过一些并不细小的确切性得知。

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It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

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At any rate, I don't know for certainty that I'm a harder grader, but I believe that it's the case based on reactions I get when I give the speech that I'm about to give.

不管怎么，虽然不是特确定我评分严格，但相信应该就是这样,根据我每次说这些话时得到的反应来说。

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All of that means we need to explain why these folks do what they end up doing, and we have some hints, but of course we do not know with any certainty or any confidence.

综上所述,我们来想想为什么这些人,要背井离乡呢,我们有一些线索,但是我们并没有有力的证据

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