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They may sometimes seem ridiculous to a rational mind.

有时对于理性的人来说，他们是很可笑的。

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We might not always obey reason and we may sometimes not want to exercise our minds, but a large part of our existence relates to us being rational animals.

我们可能并不是总是服从理智，我们也有可能有时不愿意锤炼我们的思想，但大部分我们的行动都与我们是理性的动物相关。

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It is sometimes possible to identify rational thought among the Slows, but their emotional exaggeration dilutes it.

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Although widely embraced by conservatives, critics said it failed to account for the sometimes less-than-rational aspects of human behavior.

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This careful, sometimes precarious, balance between rational and emotional can easily go off kilter when the brain locks into the evolutionary imperative that is sex.

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