Paul Pillar at Georgetown University says if it is not war, then the Obama administration needs to spell out the exact nature of the struggle.

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That's why I spent a couple of minutes trying to spell it out.

否则我也不会花这些时间去阐述它

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spell out the analogy a bit more fully, and I'll say a bit more about it later.

把这个类比说得更完整一些,一会儿我会更多的提到它。

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So if we were to spell out the argument somewhat more fully, it might be, "We have free will, but you can't both have free will and be subject to determinism or subject to deterministic laws."

因此我们要更完整地阐述这个论证的话,它应该是,人有自由意志,但人不能既有自由意志,又遵从决定论 或服从确定性的定律

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