如果一位上了年纪的杰出科学家说某件事有可能，他几乎肯定是对的，但如果他说某件事不可能，那他很有可能是错的。

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.

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他说如果不给他加薪他就辞职，但那不过是虚张声势而已。

He said he would resign if he didn't get more money, but it was only a bluff.

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“这对于努力工作的家庭来讲是艰难时期，但如果我们不行动，代价会更大。”他说。

"These are very tough times for hardworking families, but the toll would be far worse if we had not acted," he said.

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I would say the one that says you can't learn anything from this is an outlier.

但如果有人说你们从中学不到什么,那他对此一无所知

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Well, Gadamer doesn't talk about this obviously, but it is an aspect of that prejudice that one might share with tradition if one weren't somewhat more critical than this gesture of sharing might indicate.

伽达默尔并没有明确地这样说，但一个人有可能有这样的偏见,如果他不对传统中的某些东西,加以批判。

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Aristotle in his Politics says this: "As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst of all when he is divided away from the law and justice."

亚里士多德在他的《政治学》中说,"完美的人是最好的动物,但如果他与法律和公正剥离开来,那也会是最糟糕的动物"

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