它就是你要表达的东西，这个论文也是，另一种思考它的方式，关于一个问题的答案。

It is what you profess. Well, the thesis is also, another way to think of it, an answer to a question.

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如果你的文章没有主要论点，它就没有为任何问题进行辩论。

If your papers do not have a main point, they cannot be arguing for anything.

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毁灭之路就如同那个雪球，开始时问题很小，如果你没能好好解决这个问题，它就会变得越来越严重，接着它会把你击倒。

The problem starts out small. If you fail to take care of the problem, it will get bigger and bigger, then it will pummel you.

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Now we have payoffs that can really switch the question to a normative question: what should you do?

由此我们就把,它转化成了一个名义问题,你应该怎么做

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So, if you're at hanging your exam from high school on the fridge and you want to make it look more impressive, you could just rewrite the question as that, and essentially you're answering the same thing.

所以如果你把你的高中测试题,挂在冰箱上,而且想让它看起来更难忘，你仅仅重新写出这个问题就可以了，本质上你是在做相同的事情。

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I want it or I disapprove of it and, lo and behold, it's no longer aesthetic. I'll come back to that in a moment, but I hope you can see that that is a distinction between the purposive and the purposeful.

我会产生想法，比如想得到它还是觉得它恶心，你瞧，这样一来就不只是纯审美问题了，我一会儿再回来讲，但是我希望你们现在可以区分,“合目的性“和“目的性“这两个概念了，它们是有区别的。

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