Good question. I think part of the reason for more blacks low reading skills is, to do with the history of being heavy slaves.

好问题,我认为黑人阅读能力差的部分原因是,他们经历了较长时间的奴役史。

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When you go west, however, it stops in the coast of North Africa -the reason being the rest of North Africa is dominated by Carthage.

当你继续西行,希腊的城镇就止于北非沿岸,因为北非的其余领土,都被迦太基人所占领了

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The natural laws for Hobbes are not divine commands or ordinances, he says, but they are rules of practical reason figured out by us as the optimal means of securing our well-being.

对霍布斯来说，自然法不是神圣的法令,或者条例，但这些是,我们发现的实践理性的法则,就像一种最佳的方式保护我们的幸福生活。

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Well, the reason for thinking otherwise, the reason for not being utterly dismissive of this suggestion, is that when people get ill, terminally ill, it often seems to take them by surprise.

其他的想法产生的原因，人们没有完全摒弃这个假设的原因，是当人们得病，病入膏肓时，这通常让人措手不及。

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Even if there is an immortal soul-- Sorry. Even if there is a non-physical soul that's part of me, we don't yet have any reason to believe that it's one of the fundamental building blocks that were being recycled.

即使灵魂是不灭的,不对,即使有个非现实的灵魂是我的一部分,我们并没有任何理由去相信,灵魂是被循环利用的,基本组成部分之一

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