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他说经济已经走向衰退。

He says the economy has gone to seed.

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对许多家庭来说经济衰退不仅仅意味着不去度假。

For many families the recession means more than not booking a holiday.

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But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

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