"If you say,just because I'm using abbreviated forms, as I do,and change my punctuation, as I do,when I'm sending email, that it's affecting the rest of my written language, that,I'm afraid,simply doesn't happen,".

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So, as I say, at first glance you might think to get clear on the answer, "Do I or might I or could I survive my death?"

正如我所说,起初,你只是想弄清楚这个答案,我究竟能否幸免一死

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It would be thought they were not behaving very well, but they would have been as I say, perfectly within every right you can imagine to do that.

旁人也许会认为他们不该这样,但是就如我所述,这是他们的权利

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To say it's natural for us to do so is not to say we engage in political life spontaneously and avidly, as you might say spiders spin webs or ants build anthills.

说我们本能地会那么做,并不代表,我们自然且贪婪地,忙于政治生活，就像蜘蛛结网,或蚂蚁筑蚁冢。

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As such, it shouldn't be any surprise to you that what I'm going to do as we run through each of these arguments is to say, "I'm not convinced by it and here's why."

因此,你们大可不必惊异于,我接下来的举动,当我们讨论这些论点时,我会说,我并不赞同这个观点,我的理由是

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For a driver, for instance, when I ask you to rank how good you are as a driver, what people often do is they think--they say, "I'm better than average," but what they do is they focus on one aspect of their driving.

例如，拿司机来说，当我叫人们给自己的开车技术打个分时，人们通常会认为，“我比一般人好”,但其实他们只看到了开车的一个方面。

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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How do I give up my right to do whatever is in my power to secure my person or my possessions, when I have no expectation, you might say, ? that others around me are prepared to do so as well?

我怎么能在我不期望,身边的人会这样做的时候，放弃我保护自身和财产安全，不受侵害的权利？

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