我们看不到事情产生的因素，所以我们只能去推测这些因素，越是找到主要的影响因素或者找到越多影响的因素，那么我们对事物事情的认知也就越清晰。

As long as we are able to find the major reason or other diciding factors, our recognization to the matters and things are clearer.

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He wants to know how things work and why things are happening.

他想知道事物是如何运作的,以及为什么事情会发生

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That is, more or less, what did happen in the Roman world and I don't see anything that's suggested it couldn't happen in the Greek world at the time we're talking about.

那就是,或多或少的,我看不到任何事物可以表明,在罗马社会发生的事情不会,在我们所讨论的这个时期的希腊发生

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