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The Romans actually were very pious in the sense that they believed that whatever land they were in, they should provide sacrifices and honors for the local gods, especially the important ones.
而且非常虔诚,他们认为无论身处何处，都应该祭拜当地神明，尤其是重要的神。
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Because they believed-- they were made to believe that the teacher was better that supposedly he/she were.
因为他们相信-,他们被欺骗相信,这位老师的水平比实际情况高。
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They believed the world was made up of a struggle between human autonomy, on the one hand, and human dependency on the other, and you should never give up on that dependency.
他们相信这个世界是由两部分组成,一部分是人自身的自律,而另一部分则是人类与人之间的相互依赖,你永远不应该放弃那种依赖
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They didn't say God because, of course, the Enlightenment thinkers were not so sure they believed in God, but they still seemed to believe in something they wanted to call a creator.
他们没有说是上帝,因为,当然,启蒙思想家们并不确定他们,是信仰上帝的,但是他们似乎仍旧,信仰所谓的造物主
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Sometimes he believed they just weren't supposed to be included with the highest canonical books.
有时候人们只是认为,它们不属于最好的正典。
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Rock believed in souls, he just didn't think they were the key to personal identity.
洛克相信灵魂论，但他认为,这并不是人格统一性的关键。
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Now,there was even a group of nobles who believed that they could be elected, that if you had an election people would actually vote to restore the monarchy.
当时甚至有一群贵族,相信人们会选择君主制,相信如果人们有选举权,他们就会投票保留君主政体
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They performed-- not only the teacher; the teacher did perform better-- but the students actually performed better when they had high expectations, when they believed in their teachers.
学生们表现得…与老师无关;,老师没有更好的表现-,但学生表现得更好了,当他们有更高的期望时，当他们相信自己的老师时。
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They believed in the gods,they were religious people, but the core of their lives was shaped by human things in a way different from what was true of the Hebrews and the Christians later on, that is a Divine view.
他们信神灵,他们是有宗教信仰的,但他们生命意义的核心却是以人为本的,这和《希伯来书》中所写的截然不同,和稍后的基督教教义也有差异,那些是人权神授的观念
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So even if they weren't,it's because that's what people believed about these texts.
就算人们不这么认为,那也是因为对这些书籍的理解。
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