Things can't become holy and can't come into contact with the holy or the sacred if they are not first pure.

事物不可能变得神圣或是与神圣有联系,如果它们连纯洁都算不上。

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They cannot be reconciled as traditional students of the relationship between rhetoric and grammar in studying the rhetorical and grammatical effects of literature take for granted.

它们不可能和解,像传统的修辞学与语法学关系的学生,在研究修辞学和语法学对文学的影响之时想当然地做的那样。

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The underlying estimates may not accord with your belief or your intuitive sense of common sense.

各项资产有关估算结果可能与你的预想,或直觉不相符合

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At the same time, you might think his reticence, his reluctance to speak in his own voice may have also been a response to the fate of Socrates and politically endangered situation of philosophy.

同时，你也可以将他的缄默，与不发言的冷淡,可能也是,对苏格拉底的遭遇,及哲学在政治上危险处境的响应。

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In fact, even if you haven't had a biology class it's hard to be alive in 2008 and not know something about DNA; it's become such an important part of our lives.

实际上,即使你们没有上过生物课,也不可能活在当下却对DNA一无所知,它已经与我们的生活密不可分

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