From what we can tell, other than one fire engine distributing water, there's really no presence of any government or other internationalaid groups here.

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He's the one who probably would be the first to tell you there is no Santa Claus.

他会是第一个想跟你说,世上不存在圣诞老公公的人。

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That there'd be no way at all to tell whether I've survived from one minute to the next, ? from one hour to the next?

我们完全无法知道,下一秒,下一个小时，我是否活着？

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We can't take seriously the suggestion that there's no way at all to tell whether it was still me from the one day to the next, from one hour to the next, from one minute to the next, just not plausible.

我们不能太相信,我们完全没有办法,知道每一天,每个小时，每分钟，自己还是不是自己，这不仅仅是貌似可信的。

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