People have names. People have distinct, individual names that mark them as people and once you know somebody's name you are less likely to do bad things to them.

人都有各具个性的名字,这标志他们的人性,一旦你知道某个人的名字,你对他行恶的可能性就会降低。

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He argued that monotheism and polytheism are so radically distinct that one could not possibly have evolved from the other.

他认为一神论和多神论是截然不同的,不可能是一个由另一个进化而来。

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So, keep that in mind when we're talking about atomic radius, I'm not suddenly changing my story and saying, yes, we do have a distinct radius.

因此，当我们讨论原子半径的时候要时刻记住这一点，我并不是在突然改变自己的说法，说是的，我们的确有一个准确的半径。

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But since I can imagine my mind existing without my body, it follows that my mind and my body have to be logically distinct things.

由于我能够想象我的心灵独立于身体存在,可以推出,我的心灵,和身体在逻辑上是相互独立的

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Not just that, but the moral certainties that may have seemed distinct when we contrasted the ethereal heaven with the spotty and the imperfect nature of Satan and of the moon -those, too begin to seem fairly hazy.

不仅如此，其中看起来有所不同的,当我们对比天堂和撒旦与月亮的不完美时,其中道德的确定性,-那些令人模糊朦胧的事务，也开始崩塌。

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So, let's say we're looking at an element and we have an emission spectra, and we know that it has five distinct different kinetic energies in that spectrum.

比如我们正在研究一个元素,而且我们得到了它的光谱，知道了在它的光谱里,有五个分立的动能。

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That makes sense because we know that every single electron has to have its own distinct set of four quantum numbers, the only way that we can do that is to have a maximum of two spins in any single orbital or two electrons per orbital.

那个讲得通,因为我们知道每一个电子,都有它自己独特的量子数,我们能做的唯一方式是,在任一单个轨道中最多有两个自旋电子,或者每个轨道有两个电子。

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And maybe it was something else. But they withdrew for some reason And how and why they took up the worship of Yahweh or the cult of Yahweh isn't really clear but it seems to have been what marked them as distinct from other Canaanites.

也许是其他原因，但是他们因某一原因而收回,而他们怎样又为何开始了耶和华崇拜,或者说耶和华宗教并不清楚，但似乎,正是这点让他们区别于其他的迦南人。

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I want to emphasize the point that the various arguments that I have been talking about so far, although they have this common strand-- "Inference to the best explanation"-- are each separate and distinct arguments.

强调一点,到现在为止,我提及的各种论据,尽管它们都是,最佳解释的推论,但每一个都是独立而分明的

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Put the same point the other way around: If I can imagine A without B, then A and B have to be logically distinct things.

把这点推而广之,如果我可以想象A在没有B的情况下存在,那么A和B在逻辑上是相互独立的

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