When threatened, chimpanzees-- their hair stands up on end and that makes them look bigger to fool others to thinking they're more dangerous than they are.

当黑猩猩受到威胁-,它们的毛发会竖起来,使得他们看上去更加强壮,从而使其他黑猩猩误以为它们,比原先想象中更加危险。

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Quasi-magical thinking is an illusion that they documented that occurs regularly in people, which they might deny if asked about, but there's an illusion that I can control randomness through my willpower.

准神奇式思考是一种错觉,会定期在人们的思维中出现,他们也许会否认这点,但的确存在一种错觉,使人误以为可以通过意志力控制随机事件

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On the one hand, he says, his reference to a divine mission, he explicitly says there, will be taken by his audience as being just another instance of Socratic irony and insincerity.

一方面，他表示自己所指的神授任务，他很明白地表示，将会被听众误以为只是另一轮的,苏格拉底式讽刺及伪善。

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But why? What is it about the facts about life and death that seem to make it misguided to think ? we should just put them aside and pay no attention to them?

但是为什么？，关于生和死的什么事实,似乎让我们误以为,我们应该把它们撇到一边，置之不理？

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