As a teacher of mine used to say "You read Plato your way " I'll read him his way."

如同我一位老师常说的,“你们以你们的方式阅读柏拉图,我会以他的方式来阅读他“

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Oh, well, I think that Paris Hilton is much smarter than we give her credit for.

呃，唔，我觉得帕里斯·希尔顿比我们常说的聪明，

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He was very interested in saying, "Look. We'll figure how a kid develops and that will tell us about the development of knowledge more generally."

他常说,"只要能够理解儿童如何发展,就能够理解认识发展的一般规律"

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Identity is not necessary, but contingent, as the philosophers put it."

同一性不是必然的,而是偶然的,就像哲学家们常说的

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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

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People are saying stem cells are basically going to be the new miracle drug.

人们常说干细胞将会是新的救命的奇药。

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and people say "Oh, people on the East Coast are so mean."

人们常说：“噢，东海岸的人真是太刻薄了。”

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If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."

如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论，有些人可能会说，“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”

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