It is merely to assert that so far as any body of references is undistorted it belongs to Science.

单纯坚持,参考的真实性,就是科学。

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It is not in the least to assert that no references may be distorted if advantage can thereby gained.

并不是为了能得到好处,而说所有的参考都是真实的。

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It actually does a whole bunch of things, but one thing it does, I think, is try to answer that question, and to assert that evil stems from human behavior.

它其实有很多意义，但我觉得，其中之一就是解答这个问题，并且声称邪恶来自人类行为。

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You have the image of the cutting off, the castration, of the power of generativity. All poetic potency, all power to assert oneself in the world, can be severed and that's it.

有阉割，切除繁殖能力的，的形象，诗人的所有能力，所有能居于世上的力量都可以被剥夺，就是这样。

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I assert the counter is less than or equal to 0.

是小于等于0的。

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It is to assert the common humanity of us all: "That's what I call a friend."

它指出了我们共有的人性：,“朋友就要互相帮助“

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They also, like J, want to assert a continuity, but in doing so, they do it in a way that really ultimately draws attention to the fundamental discontinuity, the sense of a new beginning.

他们也像J来源一样想保持一种统一延续性，虽这样做，他们却用了不同的方式,此方法最后却将人们的注意力吸引于非延续性，一种新的开始。

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So ultimately, the J source would appear to assert God does control history, all tends towards his purpose.

因此，J来源最后好像是坚持,上帝控制历史，一切都是朝着他的期望。

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So, summarizing better, assert is something you put in to say to the user, make sure you're giving me input of this type, but I'm going to guarantee you the rest of the code works correctly. Exceptions and exception handlers are saying, here are the odd cases that I might see and here's what I'd like to do in those cases in order to try and be able to deal with them.

所以更好的总结下,断言就是你放在那里告诉用户,保证你输入的是这种类型的,但我能保证剩下的代码运行正确,异常和异常处理做的事,这里有些我能预期的异常情况,并且这里有些情况,我能尝试处理。

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