It's an historical question, as I say, and I want to devote the rest of the lecture to it.

这是一个历史问题，正如我刚刚说的，我会用剩下的时间讲讲这个问题。

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He made it relatively easy for me to set the priorities, as to where we devote the time, who gets in and who doesn't.

但总统让我相对容易地,设定首要任务，让我知道把事件分配到哪，谁要会见，谁不要。

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And in general, when people devote a lot of energy or money or expense to something, they are extraordinarily resistant to having it proven wrong.

一般来说，当人们投入的精力，金钱或成本越多时，他们就越不会相信自己是错的。

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And we could easily devote an entire semester to discussing it.

要讨论它们的话肯定会花掉一整个学期

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