The surrounding area does not make you suspect the existence of such a great opening in the earth.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

I announced on the first day of class that I don't, myself, believe in the existence of a soul.

第一节课上,我就声明,本人并不相信灵魂的存在

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Use "Is there" whenever you want to find out about the existence of a location,

当你想知道一个地点存在的情况时，就用“Is there”句型，

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Palestinians say the existence of the settlements hampers the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

But still, let me quickly point out why you could resist the argument from free will to the existence of a soul.

但我还是要简短地指出,为什么你们会拒不认同,从自由意志的角度来论证灵魂的存在

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Three legislators were absent from the vote. It is the first time a government is ousted since the country came to existence, after the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia in 1993.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

And then A.M. Snodgrass says, "I offer this as a further argument against the existence of a historical, Homeric society."

·M ·斯诺德格拉斯又说道,"我质疑荷马社会,在史实上存在的真实性"

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While ElBaradei has said Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" in not disclosing the plant's existence earlier, he used the news conference to sound a note of caution about Iran's intentions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

It's always supposed popularly that deconstruction denies the existence of any reality outside a text.

大家都假设,解构主义否定了文本之外任何现实的存在。

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The simple city is little more than a combination of households designed for the sake of securing one's existence.

简约之城,大概等同一些家庭的集合,是为着确保其人生活而设计。

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So it becomes a real watershed for us in dating texts: texts that are happy with the existence of shrines throughout the land of Israel are probably pre-Josiah, pre-622, pre-exilic.

它成了我们考证章节的真正分水岭：,一些章节中有很多圣坛的存在,遍布以色列大地,也许是在约西亚之前，622年之前或者流放之前。

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If this argument doesn't work, is there another argument for the existence of a soul that you think is a better one?

如果这个论点没有说服力,有没有其他更具说服力的论点,来论述灵魂的存在呢

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We've been talking about the question, What arguments might be offered for the existence of a soul?

我们一直在讨论这样一个问题,用什么论证可以证明灵魂的存在

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When I talked about arguments for the existence of a soul, I said, "Look, here's one possible argument.

当我谈论证明灵魂,存在的论证时,我说过,"这里有个可能的论证

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So at best that's a tie, and hence, no compelling reason to accept the existence of a soul.

这最多只能算是平局,所以,还没有令人信服的理由来接受灵魂的存在

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And the crucial question, presumably, is, "Should we believe in the existence of a soul?"

而最为关键的,也许是,我们应该相信灵魂是存在的吗

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If that happened,we'd have a great new argument for the existence of a soul.

如果两人都醒来，那关于灵魂存在就会有新的争论了。

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What other kinds of arguments could be offered for the existence of a soul?

还有什么其他论据,可以证明灵魂的存在呢

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I believe the attempts to establish the existence of a soul, an immaterial object, the house of consciousness separate and distinct from the body, I think those arguments fail.

我认为,无论是试图证明,灵魂作为一种非物质的东西,而存在,还是证明心灵,这个意识的处所,独立于肉体,我认为这些论证都不成立

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Are there things that need to be explained that we could explain if we posited the existence of a soul, an immaterial object, above and beyond the body?

有没有这样的事物,只有假定灵魂,这种凌驾于肉体之上的,非物质实体存在,才能对其进行解释

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So I don't feel forced to posit the existence of a soul.

所以我没觉得我一定要接受灵魂存在的假设

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Boom, we'd have an argument for the existence of a soul.

于是,我们就有了一个灵魂存在的论证

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Is this a convincing argument for the existence of a soul?

这个论点有能力,说明灵魂存在吗

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My point here was only to say we shouldn't be so quick to think that we have to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain our having free will.

我的观点不过就是说我们不应该这么草率地,认为我们不得不相信,灵魂的存在,从而解释我们有自由意志

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Genesis is concerned to account for the origin of things and wrestles with the existence of evil, the existence of idolatry and suffering in a world that's created by a good god.

创世纪》被认为解释了万物的来源,试图解决罪恶的存在，盲目崇拜的存在以及这个受苦的世界,这是一个善良的神创造的。

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It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

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It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

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It's neither in the text nor in the reader but the result of the negotiation back and forth between the text and the reader, he says, that sort of brings the literary work into existence in a virtual space.

它不在文本中，也不在读者的视域中,而在反复阅读文本和读者的视域之中，他说，那样会把文学作品,放到一个虚拟的空间中去。

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So, here's a new argument for the existence of the soul.

所以,这里有了一个新论证证明灵魂存在

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Machiavelli's preference for these extreme situations expresses his belief that only in moments of great crisis, where the very existence of a state is at risk, does human nature truly reveal itself.

马奇亚维利偏好,这类极端的情势,表述出他相信,仅在重大危机的当头，当一国的存亡面临考验之时，人类的本性才会真正显现出来。

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