I can't tell you in a useful way what it is that your goals in life should be or whatever.

我也不能告诉你,你人生目标应该是什么

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Actually, those guys would be useful, not so much, hardly at all during the scrum of the phalanx, but should one side be retreating.

尽管远程兵种的作用有限,尤其是双方混战时几乎形同虚设,但当一方撤退时,他们的作用就显现了

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I think for the moment it should be plain to you that this is a good way of understanding what the difference between a useful preconception and a useless preconception brought to bear on an interpretative act might consist in.

我想大家现在都能够,从这个例子中明白,解读中有益先见,和无益先见,之间的区别了。

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