The subject of the debate has been the nature of the fallen angels' political future: essentially, the question is where do we go from here? Moloch, you'll remember, is the military general who will risk absolutely anything for revenge.

辩论的主题是,堕落天使政治前途的本来面目：，关键问题在于,我们从这里要走向何方？，你们记得莫洛克吧，他是一位将军，愿不惜一切代价复仇。

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In other words, we said that in intellectual history, first you get this movement of concern about the distance between the perceiver and the perceived, a concern that gives rise to skepticism about whether we can know things as they really are.

换言之，我们曾说过在思想史上，首先你要知道,关注感知者和被感知者之间距离的运动，这种关注会让我们怀疑,自己是否弄清楚了事物的本来面目。

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Does he not say that armed prophets always win, the unarmed prophets lose? Did he not say that he wrote to reveal the effectual truth of things and ? not just what people have imagined the case to be?

难道他没说过武装的先知总能取胜而，徒手的先知总是失败？，难道他没说过,他写作是为了揭示出事物的本来面目,证明事物并非人们幻想的那个样子？

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