We cannot say writing came into being belatedly with respect to speech in order to reproduce, imitate, or transcribe speech.

我们不能说书写比演讲产生得更晚,是为了复制，模仿，或者是记录下演讲的内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's going to say,look,the personality theory of personal identity has an implication that we cannot possibly accept.

这是说个人认同感的人格理论,含有一个我们可能无法接受的暗示。

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We cannot trust all people, Aristotle seems to say.

我们不能信任所有的人，亚里士多德似乎这么说。

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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