Now you're right: you're right if you have the feeling that you've heard a lot of these same ideas before.

你们是对的：如果你们觉得,这些说法都是老生常谈了。

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So although it has seemed to people over the ages that the question, "Is there life after death?"

因此虽然这看起来,这是个老生常谈的问题,但"死后能否继续活着"

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When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.

当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物，他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。

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Now,here we move into a history that is the kind of old style history.

我们来听一段历史,属于老生常谈的那种

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It had, I know, this is old guy stories, but it had 160k of memory. Yeah. 160k.

我知道这是老生常谈，但这个电脑只有160K的内存。

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The throb is of course undeniably associated with Humbert's rising desire in that physical way, and there is that emotionalized version of that, the throbbing heart of romantic cliche.

这种悸动当然与，Humbert渐强的身体欲望有关的,那带着一种感情色彩,那颗老生常谈的浪漫的悸动的心。

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