Well, the reason for thinking otherwise, the reason for not being utterly dismissive of this suggestion, is that when people get ill, terminally ill, it often seems to take them by surprise.

其他的想法产生的原因，人们没有完全摒弃这个假设的原因，是当人们得病，病入膏肓时，这通常让人措手不及。

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Now, this particular simile conjures for us an image of someone trying to get a fix on Satan's shield, and there's the suggestion here of an attempt to get a proper perspective on this huge character, Satan.

这个特别的比喻如同戏法般,像我们展示了一个想要对撒旦的屏障有所一瞥的形象，这里有找出对这个重要的人物，撒旦,的一个合理的观点的暗示。

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All right. So the suggestion then might be this.

所以一个可能的回答是这样的

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Professor Amy Hungerford: Okay. So, you're suggestion is that ; what's so disturbing about this is that we actually like this guy; now, I asked you this question about O'Connor's characters -would you like to sit down to dinner with any of them?

好的，所以你的建议是,我们之所以被扰乱，是因为我们实际上喜欢这个角色;,现在，我问你们一个关于O’Conor的角色的问题,你们愿意和那些角色一起共进晚餐吗？

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Nice suggestion.So the suggestion was this.

很好的建议，他的建议是这样的。

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But I think this is rather an implausible suggestion because, of course, you could have these glorious views just by going up in the airplane and looking down from the safety of your airplane.

但我认为这是个似是而非的建议,因为，当然，你可能只是坐飞机向上飞,并安全地向下看,就会有这些迷人的视野。

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Now, if we push the dualist to explain what is it about free will that rules out the possibility that we are merely physical objects, I think the natural suggestion to spell out the argument goes like this, and this is where we were at the end of last time.

现在如果我们让二元论者去解释,什么是自由意志,它又是如何否定,人仅仅是物理实体这种可能性的,我认为他们自然会这样,阐述这个论证,这是就我们在上节课结束时讲到的内容

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