"I am confident President Sarkozy will not be here for the first course of our dinner, but will still be sitting as we complete our dinner this evening,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

It's not about marriage, and marriage will still seem quite a ways off, I fear, when you read Lycidas, but we will be marking the transition to the poetry of marriage soon enough.

那不是讲婚姻的，我担心当你们读《利西亚斯》的时候，婚姻仍是一个走出的方法，但是我们,将很快标记诗篇中关于婚姻的转变。

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Even though God knew exactly what Adam and Eve would do -that they would eat the fruit -we still have to be able to say that they ate the fruit freely out of their own free will.

甚至可以说上帝完全了解亚当夏娃接下来要做的,-他们会去偷吃禁果,-我们还是可以这样说的,他们处于自由的想法之下，偷吃了禁果。

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If a deterministic system could nonetheless have free will, we could still be purely physical systems.

如果一个决定论系统能在此情况下,仍然拥有自由意志,我们仍可能只是纯粹的物理系统

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Still, even though it's not a bad thing that we will die, it could still be a bad thing that we die when we do.

虽然终将一死不是坏事，但我们死时却可能是件坏事。

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If determinism isn't true of us at the fundamental level, then even if you couldn't both have determinism and free will, we could still have free will, and yet, for all that, still be purely physical systems.

如果决定论在基础水平上不适用于我们,那即使你不能,同时遵从决定论和拥有自由意志,我们仍能拥有自由意志,而且,尽管如此,我们仍旧属于纯粹的物理系统

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