They are going to be denigrated because they maintain cults that rival the central sanctuary of Jerusalem And this is going to be what does them in.

他们会被诋毁,因为他们保持着崇拜耶路撒冷中心圣所的宗教传统,这就会使他们陷于诋毁。

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The New Criticism, incontestably and without rival, created an atmosphere in which it was okay to notice that things were a little more difficult than they'd been supposed to be.

新批评派，无可厚非，创造了一种很好的风气，大家似乎都能欣然接受,那些看起来还比较复杂的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In any case, Aristotle returned to Athens later on and established a school of his own, a rival to the Platonic Academy " that he called the Lyceum.

无论如何，亚里士多德后来回到雅典,并建立了他自己的学校，和柏拉图的学院打擂台,他称之为，“学园。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

rival theories about the key to personal identity.

关于人格同一性的,3个理论。

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We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

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