It's just that other meanings are available, and since they're not on the same page, those two other meanings coexist painfully and irreducibly at odds, right?

它只是说其它意思也有可能，由于它们不是在同一水平线上，这两种其它意思,痛苦地共存着，同时又不可削减地矛盾着，对吧？

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And when they started encountering these Northerners, whether they were from Massachusetts or Ohio, who started talking about a politics of conscience, or a politics of law, they're not always talking on the same page.

当他们数落北方人的时候,不管他们本身来自马萨诸塞州或俄亥俄州,他们开始讨论对良知,或者政法的时候,他们总是牛头不对马嘴

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