It's probably also worth underlining the fact that what I've really been doing is running through a series of arguments.

为这样的事实打下基础也是很有价值的,我正在做的,是将一系列的论证串联起来

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And then there's like a series of tests that you go through,

然后要经过一系列的考试，

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Yeats explores that experience, which is an experience of suffering here and of violation, through a series of rhetorical questions, which are a crucial poetic device for Yeats.

叶芝探索了这种感受，这里这是一种痛苦,一种暴力，表现为一系列隐喻的问题，这是他写诗的一种手法。

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So I'm going to run through a series of these arguments.

我先简单地说一下,这一系列的论证

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I've gone through a series of such arguments, and the one that we ended with last time was the suggestion that we need to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain the fact that we've got free will.

我已经讲过一系列这样的论证,上次课结束时我提到的一个论证认为,我们只有相信灵魂存在,才能解释我们拥有自由意志这一事实

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