天文学家们认为，“地球是宇宙的中心”这种说法是非常直观、合情合理的，以至于当他们发现与地心论不符的现象时，也会想办法找理由去解释。

It was so intuitive, so sensible that the Earth was the center of the universe that astronomers found ways to explain those seemingly inconsistent phenomena within the geocentric view.

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事实上，我们上节课提到过，当时很多的哲人都提出万有引力是晦涩难懂的，即便是机械论的因果关系也是非常难理解的。

So, in fact, not only is gravity unintelligible as we saw last time many philosophers at the time wanted to say, actually even mechanical causation is pretty unintelligible too.

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美国例外论有许多种表现形式，其中选区的设置是非常古怪的一种。

AMERICAN exceptionalism comes in many forms, but one of the odder ones is the way it sets its electoral boundaries.

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