We have to confess that it's more than that.

我们得承认这段话不是盲目的乐观。

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Why didn't he come clean? Of course, they took "The Purloined Ribbon" to be his sort of allegorical way of suggesting that he couldn't possibly confess because nobody can confess, there's no human subjectivity, etc., etc., etc.

为什么不全盘招供，当然，人们把他写的“偷窃的缎带“当成他用一种讽喻的方式,来暗示说他不可能承认,因为没有人能承认，人类主观性的缺失，等等等等。

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I got to confess to you that Socrates doesn't quite conclude the way I'd have thought he would have concluded, so I had the arguement conclude 6 the soul can't be destroyed.

我必须跟你们说明,苏格拉底得出的结论,并不是我认为,他应该得出的结论，我的论点以6结束6,6说的是灵魂不会毁灭。

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