That is to say that when we think we're telling the truth we're actually using worn-out figures of speech.

也就是说我们认为我们在讲述真理的时候,我们实际上却在使用一些陈腐的修辞手法。

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Let's say that your brother who you are really close to is dating a girl that is not telling him the truth.

假设你有个关系非常亲密的哥哥，他正和一个女孩谈恋爱，但这女孩却并没有以诚相待。

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Is it not palpably nearer the truth to say that no man was ever born free and that no two men were ever born equal?

是否应该说,没有人生来就是自由的,也不可能人人生下来都是平等的

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Does he not say that armed prophets always win, the unarmed prophets lose? Did he not say that he wrote to reveal the effectual truth of things and ? not just what people have imagined the case to be?

难道他没说过武装的先知总能取胜而，徒手的先知总是失败？，难道他没说过,他写作是为了揭示出事物的本来面目,证明事物并非人们幻想的那个样子？

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It would be far nearer the truth to say that some are born with saddles on their backs and others booted and spurred to ride them."

这样说也许更贴切,有些人生来就烙有奴隶的印记,而有些人生来就是统治他们的"

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