Tell us if you have a favorite American blues or folk singer young or old -- and what makes that person's music special to you.

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It's quite striking and it helps you to reflect on what makes us behave the way we do.

这是很震撼的,促使你反思,是什么使我们冷漠地无动于衷

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Another question having to do with development is what makes us the way we are?

与发展有关的另一个问题是,什么让我们成为了如今的样子

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In other words, the text is what makes the ascertainment of meaning possible and available to us, but meaning is not in the text.

换言之,作品才是使含义得以传达的必要条件，但含义又并不在文本里。

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Why is it worth it to him to take that risk? What's he trying to teach us about narrative and about language that makes it worth this risk?

为什么这值得他承担如此风险呢，关于叙述文章,和让这些风险值得语言，巴斯到底想教会我们什么呢？

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What is it that makes us uniquely human?

什么使我们人类不同于其他生物的呢？

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So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?

所以我们的问题依然存在，这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战，是什么使得霍布斯的故事，关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事，是什么使它真实合理？

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We don't know what makes us laugh.

我们不知道是什么引起我们笑。

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In other words, it makes us pause over what we're reading.

也就是说，它使我们在阅读的时候停下。

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How the human mind works, how we think, what makes us what we are.

人类大脑如何运作,我们如何思考,又是什么让我们变成了现在的样子

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In the aftermath of Darwin in particular, our understanding of natural selection, our understanding of genetic hard-wiring and other factors, makes us begin to wonder in what sense we can consider ourselves, each of us, to be autonomous subjects.

特别是继达尔文之后，我们对于自然选择，基因和其他因素的理解，让我们开始思考在哪种意义上我们每个人，可以把自己视为有自主性的主体。

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