"It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate."

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You would think that any rational woman in the nineteenth century would reflect on the fact that there's a significant probability that her husband will die of something while you still have children.

你可能会觉得当时任何一名理性的妇女,都会意识到他们丈夫很可能会在,孩子长大之成人前去世

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But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

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