The paper discusses the two types of the rhetorical question: explicit question with ambiguous answer and question without answer.

本文讨论设问的两种特殊类型：实问虚答与只问不答。

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The lawyer understood, the judge understood, everyone with the slightest knowledge of cross-examination tactics understood that you never asked a question without knowing the answer.

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The compromise is a federal form that tries to answer the question without really asking it.

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It's hard for me to answer the question without understanding what we're judging it against.

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