"I don't think there's a good reason to close schools in Ethiopia right now. There's every reason in every country to wash your hands.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

We will initially think about the first question: Do we have any good reason to believe in souls at all?

我们将要开始考虑第一个问题,我们到底有没有理由去相信灵魂的存在

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There's a very good reason Jefferson Davis becomes president of the confederacy in 1860.

杰斐逊·戴维斯之所以能在1860年,成为南部邦联总统

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Basically that the various arguements that might be offered for believing in souls don't seem very compelling upon examinations so there's no good reason to posit this extra entity.

基本上要我们相信灵魂的,不同的理据,都经不住考察,所以我们没有很好的理由,来假设这个额外实体的存在。

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All right, so this gentleman is saying... There's no dominant strategy so - Right, so this gentleman's saying, a good reason for choosing Alpha in this game is it's less risky.

很好,他说,这里没有优势策略 所以,没错,他说,选α是因为这样做风险更小

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The other is I take a mortgage, I buy a house, I pay it off, I go into a heavy indebtedness but with a good rational reason and it all works out in the end.

另一种情况是，我分期贷款买了一套房子，我还清了贷款，却债台高筑,这样，于情于理都能说通,而且，最终无事一身轻。

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They showed the vats of chocolate where people were stirring in things, and those evoke a lot of interesting sensations in people, a lot of interesting reactions in people because fat is inherently tasting good to us because it--there's reason for it to taste good because it provides so many calories.

人们往大桶巧克力中搅拌其他食物,这唤起了人们许多有趣的反应,这些反应很有意思,因为脂肪对人类来说是天生的美味,味道不错的原因是,脂肪提供了如此之多的热量

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There was no good reason in the world that an abolitionist in the 1830s, '40s, and even the '50s, had any right to believe they would see the end of slavery in their lifetime.

然而在这世上并不存在一个好理由,使一个十九世纪三十年代,四十年代甚至五十年代的废奴者,几乎不可能相信,他们在有生之年会看到奴隶制的终结

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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

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