To explain why, let me answer a rhetorical question posed by Professor John Taylor of Stanford University in a recent op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal.

为了解释其中的理由，我先回答斯坦福大学教授约翰·泰勒最近在《华尔街日报》发表的一篇文章中提出的一个反问。

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Instead, he is always willing to admit what he does not know or understand, and when he poses a question, he is never rhetorical. He seems genuinely to want to know the answer.

相反，他总是愿意承认自己不知道或不理解的事物，而且当他提出问题时从不遮掩修饰，他似乎是真诚地想知道答案。

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But we have, in answer to the question of where are your spending cut proposals, it must be a rhetorical question because those who ask it know that we have put forward very specific spending cut proposals.

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