If there's something distinct about it" Southern art "It's subject matter and also inner heritage.

如果说它有什么独特的地方",它指南方艺术,"便是其主题和精神传承

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So the mere fact that we decide, if we do ultimately decide that there is a soul, something nonphysical, separate and distinct from the body, doesn't guarantee that we survive our physical death.

根据我们仅有的事实去判断,如果我们最终判定灵魂是存在的,它是一种无形的,独立的,与肉体截然不同的东西,但仍不能保证我们会在肉体死亡后活下来

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But if there's one thing and this is a little risky because there are always holes in any claim like this but if there's one distinct feature of the Old South society and indeed its leadership and most of its people, it would be what we might label anti-modernism.

但有一点,具有一定的风险,因为任何论点中都会有漏洞,如果说旧南方社会,的领导层和大部分人民,都有一个显著的特点,那就是在我们看来,他们是反现代的

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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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