In 1633, William Laud had been appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he had been granted an extraordinary set of arbitrary powers of suppression, actually, by the monarch.

633年，威廉劳德被任命为坎特伯雷大主教，并被赋予了一项特别的专职权利,即国王赋予他的镇压权。

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Then he had a machine that granted each pigeon one piece of corn every fifteen seconds; that's very, frustratingly slow for a hungry pigeon to get one piece every fifteen seconds.

他们设计了一个能保证,每隔15秒给鸽子喂一玉米粒的装置,对饥饿的鸽子来说是杯水车薪,每15秒才只有一粒玉米

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He takes it for granted that he is the most rational and systematic of all thinkers and raises questions about since we all take ourselves to be rational too raises questions about just how we know ourselves not to be paranoid delusives like Don Quixote.

他理所当然地认为,自己是所有思想者中最理性，最有条理的,他提出,既然我们也认为自己很理性,我们如何证明自己,不像堂吉诃德一样处于妄想之中呢？

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Utnapishtim And finally exhausted and battered he reaches Utnapishtim, also there on the board, Utnapishtim, who is the only mortal ever to have been granted immortality by the gods, and he comes to him and asks for his secret.

耗尽精力，终于到达，在屏幕上的Utnapishtim，是上帝恩准的唯一,可以长生不老的人，吉尔伽美什跟他讨教长生的秘密。

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A man is granted too much,he is too well off, he is too rich,he is too strong,he is too beautiful, so much so that he becomes too arrogant and is ready to step beyond his human condition.

如果一个人被赋予太多,他太过富有,强大,接近完美,拥有的太多以至于变得傲慢,准备超越身为凡人的现状

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