科学家领头人面对着反对气候变化学说的人的一知半解的疑问，或者其他更另人担心的事情。就他们而言，科学机构表现出的是一种可被大众理解的防御吗？

Do they show an understandable defensiveness on the part of leading scientists faced with ill-informed challenges from climate change nay-sayers, or something more worrying?

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The will of any one god can be thwarted by perhaps another god.

某一条神谕可能会受到另一个神的反对。

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And what he does and what his work does is basically explain why people choose to back one political party versus the other; why they choose to live one kind of life versus the other.

他的工作和作品的贡献在于解释了,人们为什么会选择一个党派反对另一个;,为什么会选择一种生活方式摒弃另一种。

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There are lots of things to be said against it, on the other hand, which I don't want to pause over now because I think a course of lectures on literary theory will inevitably show the ways in which paraphrase is inadequate to the task of rigorous interpretation.

另一方面，有很多反对这个的言论，我不想在此,停下来讲,因为我觉得一门,文学理论上的课不可避免地,会包括一些释意所无法，充分解释的方面,一个严苛的评论家克林斯。

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