The admiral says the situation in Iraq seemed impossible to resolve a few years ago, and,although the two countries are very different,and progress in Iraq is not a guarantee of progress in Afghanistan, it does give him reason to be hopeful about Afghanistan - even during the current period of heavy violence and at best,slow progress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

All right. We've been talking about arguments that might give us reason to believe in the existence of an immaterial soul.

我们已经讨论了,那些让我们相信,灵魂存在的论证

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It's not that the facts about the human digestive process give you reason not to kiss her.

不是关于人类消化过程的事实,给了你不去吻她的理由。

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So,I'm telling you from the beginning, but don't dream and think that somehow the Final's going to be so much different from your regular day-to-day performance, but to give you some reason to live after the Midterm.

所以我在开始告诉你们,但是,不要以为你们的最终成绩,和你们的平时表现,没什么关系,但这能让你们不至于期中的时候就绝望了

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It's not that the facts about death give you reason to stay in your room and sulk.

不是说关于死亡的事实,给了你呆在房间里生气的理由。

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But there's nothing in the body view to give us a reason to make that choice.

但肉体理论没有一个标准让我们做出选择。

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So the facts could be things that would give you reason to change your behavior.

所以事实可能会给你理由,改变你的行为。

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It doesn't give me a reason to reject the personality theory.

并不能给出我反对人格理论的理由。

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But at least it would give us some reason to believe in the soul.

但至少它给了我们一些相信灵魂存在的理由

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I can't see any good reason to believe premise two, and as far as I can see, Plato doesn't actually give us any reason to believe it in the dialogue.

我找不到什么很好的原因来相信前提二,在我看来,柏拉图在对话录中,也没有给出任何令人信服的理由

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After all, even if you believe in a soul, as I have remarked previously, that doesn't give us yet any reason to believe the soul continues to exist after the death of your body.

毕竟,就像我之前说过的,即使灵魂是存在的,那也不能说明,灵魂在肉体死后,仍然能继续存在下去

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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

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