If our date for him, which is very problematical, is right roughly, then by certainly 700 B.C.

如果我们追溯他所处的时代的话,大概是在公元前700年,当然这有待确认

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B In fact, it's even a question whether A is A, but it's certainly not B, right? This much we know. In the grammatical sense there is no sort of mystification about the metaphor.

实际上，人们甚至对A是不是A都有疑问，但肯定不是，是吧，我们都知道这点，而从语法的角度来看,并没有像暗喻一样的神秘化。

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