Political experts believe the furious national debate over health care has quickly broadened into an argument over how much government involvement there should be in the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Now, let's say, I'm not really much concerned with whether this was an argument that Plato thought worked or not.

我其实并不太关心,柏拉图本人认为,这个论证是否说得通

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That argument's much less compelling nowadays than I think it would have been 20 or 40 years ago.

这个论点在今天远不及在20年前,或40年前有说服力了

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or just belittle their argument so much.

别管他们是怎么想的。

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Well Jenkins makes the argument that people are eating too much of everything, and that every part of the diet is being over-consumed and--except for things like fiber, which is being under-consumed, but every sort of thing that people should be eating less of is being over-consumed.

詹金斯的观点是,人们是饮食总量过剩,饮食中的每个部分都摄入过剩,除了纤维素--纤维素是摄入不足的,但所有人们应该少吃些的东西,现在都摄入过剩了

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And I don't quite remember from reading or from class how big these things are, well, it turns out -- and this is sometimes useful, later on more likely than now -- but C has a size of operator that takes an argument in parenthesis and it will tell you how much space is used to store that particular data type.

我不太记得类中的这些类型,是多大的，嗯，结果是--这个在以后比现在，可能是更有用的--不过C语言中有个sizeof的操作符,其中括号里有一个参数,它会告诉我们，要存储一个类型的数据,需要占用多大空间。

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The argument is only making a much more specific claim.

它只是提出了一个更明确的主张

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The argument I'm about to sketch is a purely philosophical argument, not really so much a matter of who can explain this or that feature of us better than anybody else.

我接下来要介绍的,是一个纯粹的哲学论证,并非绝对意义上的,解释优劣决定孰强孰弱

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