"Because I had just gone through it, I knew how that was going to ring true for so many women."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

We have to think about how is it,how could it be true, that death is bad for the person that dies?

我们需要想清楚为什么死亡，会对死者本身造成坏处？

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You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.

你可以说,这较不像是真实主张的本体,而较像是狡猾的诀窍意识,或说政治悟性。

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I would ask you to see how such energy level diagrams rationalize what we know to be true.

我想问你，看看这种能级图,如何证实我们知道的是正确的。

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How could it be true that death is bad for the person that dies?

死亡如何能对死者本身造成坏处呢？

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You can see in the New World with maize being important how America has become a corn dominated society, even though it's still true that we raise wheat, we raise other things in the United States, and we can import different foods, corn has become an incredibly important constituent of the diet in the U.S.

你能发现玉米在美洲大陆的重要性,那美洲是怎样变成主食玉米的社会的呢,尽管我们仍然种植小麦,在美国也种植其他粮食,而且我们能进口各种不同食物,但是玉米还是变成了,美国人食谱中不可代替的部分

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Yet how many people could give a kind of reasoned account of ? what makes these beliefs true ? or what grounds these beliefs?

但多少人会能,给一个合理的解释,是什么让这些信念成真,它们的根据为何？

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Although it's not true that you are speaking French-- let's suppose that you know how to speak French-- it's still true of you while you're asleep that you can or could speak French.

虽然你并不在说法语-,先假设你会说法语-,但是确实在你睡觉时,你是有可能开口说法语的。

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What we either have to do is deny the claims I'm made about the nature of death, or else go on to ask-- supposing they are true-- ? how should we live in light of them?

我们要做的是,否认我对死亡的本质的说法，或者继续问-,假设它们是真的-,鉴于此，我们应该怎样生活？

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