If you were reading a book in your warm bed on a cold winter's day, you might say you were snug as a bug in a rug.

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You just kind of swept them under the rug, but now, you are out there in full force with your knives sharpened.

只是把它们隐藏起来了，但是现在，竭尽全力站在那儿,拿着削尖了刀。

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If you took out somebody's cortex and flattened it out, it would be two feet square, sort of like a nice--like a rug.

如果你取出某人的大脑皮层,把它摊开,会有两平方英尺那么大,有点像一张地毯

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So at the very same moment that positing the nonsplitting of souls seems to solve the fission problem of duplication, it yanks the rug out from underneath the soul theorist by undermining one of the types of arguments for believing in the soul in the first place.

所以在为了解决复制产生的裂变问题,营造出灵魂的不分割性时，也侵蚀了一开始相信灵魂的存在的论据,从内部动摇了灵魂理论者。

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