不久以前，人们还无法想象一种病毒能使众多国家封闭，而安全网被证明是如此灾难性地缺乏灵活性。

Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.

youdao

我怀疑，他的实验一直以来都不是一种发现的手段，而总是证明他已经知道的东西的一种手段。

His experiments were always, I suspect, a means, not of discovery, but always of verifying what he knew already.

youdao

你希望她坦然接受她的女儿身，而不因此感到愤怒的话，你就应该以一种积极的态度来证明你的女性魅力，这样，你才能养成一个所谓的不为青春期担忧的女儿。

You want her to embrace her femininity, not resent it, so stay positive, demonstrate your own feminine power, and you will raise an empowered daughter who isn't afraid of her period.

youdao

I believe the attempts to establish the existence of a soul, an immaterial object, the house of consciousness separate and distinct from the body, I think those arguments fail.

我认为,无论是试图证明,灵魂作为一种非物质的东西,而存在,还是证明心灵,这个意识的处所,独立于肉体,我认为这些论证都不成立

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