Since the state of your mind that you describe, is, at allevents, attributable to some influence of mine- this is what I mean, if I can make it plain- can I use no influence to serve you?

既然你所描写的心情大体可以归结为我的影响——简而言之，这是我的感觉——我难道就无法产生有利于你的影响了么？

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If you have some plain text, some message that you want to send, well, you can encrypt it or you can scramble it using a key, a secret key, which might be a physical machine like the Enigma 13 or it might be a number like 13.

如果你有没有加密的文本，你想要寄送的一些消息,你就可以加密它,或者你可以用一个密钥使其变得混乱，那就像一个英格玛的物理装置,或者他就是一个数字。

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There can be fighting without war but there can be no war without an organization that makes it something more than just plain fighting.

就算没有战争,争斗同样可以存在,但没有组织,便没有战争,组织使的战争的意义超出了单纯的争斗

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