B In fact, it's even a question whether A is A, but it's certainly not B, right? This much we know. In the grammatical sense there is no sort of mystification about the metaphor.

实际上，人们甚至对A是不是A都有疑问，但肯定不是，是吧，我们都知道这点，而从语法的角度来看,并没有像暗喻一样的神秘化。

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Also, you could use "Would you" with a "like" right after to soften the question even further.

当然，你也可以在“Would you”后面加上一个“like”，因为你可以用这个疑问句使你提出的各种问题变得更温和。

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And ironically you sense, when you read this that even though Cain intends this as a rhetorical question "Am I my brother's keeper?"--in fact, he's right on the money.

当读到这一段的时候，你能感觉到其中的讽刺意味,尽管该隐的回答是一个设问句,“难道我是他的看守吗？“，事实上，指钱的话，他说的是对的。

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But before we can even get started, there's a question, really an objection to the whole enterprise.

在我们开始之前,还有一个问题,这是所有问题的核心内容

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The breaking of even a single law calls into question the authority of law as such.

只要违反一条法律,即足够让法律的权威产生质疑。

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While China is going to continue to buy things, it doesn't mean they're going to buy them from us necessarily even though the dollar has gone down a great deal Student: Thank you. This is my last question.

虽然中国还将会继续购买原产品,但那并不意味着他们必须得从我们这买,即使美元已经,大幅度地贬值了,学生：谢谢，这是我最后一个问题。

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And now maybe...now I've just heard that maybe one of those two recessions wasn't even a classic recession at all So the question is 1890 to 1945 on the one hand, 1983 to the present on the other, does that tell us that ? we've gotten better at government interventions?

那么现在也许。。。就你们刚才所说,其中一次所谓的衰退也许,根本不能算是典型的经济衰退了,那么问题在于，从1890年到1945年，以及1983年至今的经济状况，是否说明,政府对经济的干预是有利的？

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It's not clear that's even a sensible question The question is there's a height difference between you and me and him and her ? How do we explain that difference?

这问题还并不一定成立,问题是身高差异存在于,你、我、他之间,这如何解释？

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But in order to address that particular question what is for me to survive the death of my body is that even a posibility or not.

但为了解决这个问题,我的肉体不死意味着什么,是否有这样的可能性。

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Second question: Even if logic doesn't require that ? is it true that immortality's a good thing?

第二个问题，即使逻辑性不要求,永生真的是好事吗？

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Even to raise such a question seems to pose insuperable obstacles.

光是提出这样的问题,就像是丢出了许多不能克服的障碍。

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There's a kind of puzzle there as to-- even if, before we move to the question, how widespread are cases like this?

这里又产生了一种疑团-,甚至在我们探讨，这种案例有多普遍之前？

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