The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

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The idea of going into battle is not merely to avoid being killed; the purpose is to kill the other fellow.

战场上并不只是防守,更重要的是杀敌斩将

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The only way to avoid that is to lobotomize me, and that's not desirable.

唯一的解决方法是作额叶切除术，那不是我想要的。

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Yet, we should also avoid the second, equally powerful temptation, which is to reject Aristotle out of hand, because his views do not correspond with our own.

另外我们还要避免第二种，同样强大的诱惑，那就是拒亚里士多德于门外，因为他的观点不见容于我们的年代。

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