This is somebody being tortured at the stake for merely existing, for having not confessed to being a Protestant or a Catholic or whatever.

那个人被毫无缘由地处决,或者由于新教徒或天主教徒的身份,或者其他什么原因而受罚

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And then,lo and behold it turns out that his widow, to whom he confessed various infidelities before expiring, was pregnant; indeed,he was the father.

之后,他的遗孀怀孕了,他在断气前向她承认曾经有过不忠,但他确实是孩子的父亲

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Now, at this point I have to just confess, as I've confessed at other times before, the three is a claim about empirical science.

在这一点上我必须承认,像我之前承认过的那样,前提三是关于实证科学的

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