And unsurprisingly-- since I announced this was going to be the result before the class had barely gotten started-- I don't think any of these arguments work.

我在课程还没正式开始的时候,就已经说过了,我认为这些论证都站不住脚

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And I think that since this country started out with people coming over from different countries

我想既然这个国家一开始就有来自世界各国的人，

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Now since I think that the arguments I'm about to sketch-- and I've just started sketching the first of is fails I hope you'll think it over and you'll eventually come to agree with me, yeah, these arguments don't really work after all.

由于我并不认同我将要介绍的论点,尽管我已经开始概述其中的第一个分论点了,我希望你们能够认真思考,最终你们也会同我的观点一致,的确,这些论点都不成立

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