Like how can you possibly figure that out with actually compelling a machine to do it for you and sure enough we chatted for a few moments, I kind of gently pointed out well it's kind of like problem 7 last year.

就好像去逼计算机为你做这件事,就能解决问题一样,我们确实谈过这个问题，我委婉地告诉他,这种情况与我们去年讲过问题7类似。

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We'll see that there's actually compelling use cases for using the same names of variables in different context's.

我们将看到这是一个在不同环境中,使用相同名字变量的,一个案例。

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And I've argued-- I've shared with you my reasons for thinking that those arguments are not compelling.

而我也辩驳过了,我给你们讲过为什么我认为,这些论证并不具有说服力

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Basically that the various arguements that might be offered for believing in souls don't seem very compelling upon examinations so there's no good reason to posit this extra entity.

基本上要我们相信灵魂的,不同的理据,都经不住考察,所以我们没有很好的理由,来假设这个额外实体的存在。

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For my money, I find the beginnings of the scientific explanation sufficiently persuasive and sufficiently compelling that I don't find the argument from near- death experience--as an argument for the existence of a soul-- I don't find it especially persuasive.

在我看来,我觉得这些初步的,科学解释已经足够有说服力,足够令人信服,而从濒死体验的角度,来证明灵魂存在论证,我认为它不是特别有说服力

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If you've ever noticed, Mac OS has its Apple menu on the top left and Windows has its start menu in the bottom left, really for no compelling reason.

如果你注意到，你会发现，Mac操作系统,在其左上角是Apple菜单，Windows却把它的开始菜单,放在左下角，毫无理由可言。

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