试图将肚皮舞标榜为一种诱惑行为是贬低和扭曲的。

Attempts to brand the belly dance as an act of seduction are both demeaning and distorting.

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正如塞缪尔·约翰逊所写，这行为是希望战胜了经验。

An act that is, as Samuel Johnson wrote, the triumph of hope over experience.

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动物行为是一项有趣且有吸引力的研究。

Animal behavior is an interesting and attractive study.

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This was an act of compulsion, and the poet had to be forced to press this lyric out of himself.

这是一个强迫性的行为,诗人被迫绞尽脑汁写出这首诗来。

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In other words, only if we really are sure that the historicist act of reading is effective and works, if I know the meaning of a text. Well, fine.

换言之，要是我们确定,阅读这个历史主义行为是有效的，有用的，如果我知道文本的意思，那么，很好。

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So, we know ourselves that our behavior is due to a complicated cluster of the situation and our personal natures.

我们知道我们的行为是由于,一连串复杂的情况和我们的个人本性。

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