It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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And intuitively, it seems plausible to many people that you couldn't have free will and be subject to determinism.

从直觉上讲,对于很多人来说,你不可能既有自由意志又服从于决定论

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All heat couldn't get successfully converted into work That would be desirable, but it's not possible.

都变成功,把全部热量变成功是非常令人期待的，但是这是不可能的。

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For example, by the way, the compulsion to repeat nasty episodes, - to revisit trauma, and to repeat the unpleasurable-- well, that could just be called masochism, couldn't it?

举个例子，强迫性地重复那些凶的片段，去重温创伤，重复不愉快-,不正是一种性虐待吗？

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You couldn't get rid of faction by saying to men, it's not good to be factious, you should think of the whole community at all times.

你无法通过告诉人们,派系之坏而去彻底摆脱它,而是应将社会各界因素考虑完全

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If it were negative--it's very unlikely that it's negative-- it couldn't be negative.

如果这是个负值...这不太可能...,这可能是负值

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"Gee. It couldn't be the coffee."

天，不会是咖啡的原因“

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Couldn't that be a kind of existence that would be forever enjoyable and yet it wouldn't be a rat-like existence?

那样的存在难道不是让人永远享受的,而且并非老鼠般的存在？

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Plato's going to argue once we understand the sort of metaphysical nature of the soul, we'll see why it couldn't be destroyed.

柏拉图会为我们证明,一旦我们理解了灵魂的哲学本质,我们就会明白为什么不能摧毁灵魂

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So we need something to direct it, but why couldn't that just be, one particular part of the body plays the part of the command module?

所以我们需要某个东西来引导,但是为什么不可能仅仅是,肉体某个特定的部分在扮演着,指挥舱的角色呢

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Mind you, it's not that I think we couldn't be stimulated to get pleasure forever.

提醒你们，我并非否定,永远依靠刺激获得快感。

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But that didn't mean it couldn't be done.

但那并不表示我们永远做不到

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And another philosopher, Descartes, in thinking about God's omnipotence, thought that it wouldn't be good enough if God as omnipotent couldn't change the facts of mathematics.

另一个哲学家，笛卡尔在思考上帝万能的时候觉得，如果万能的上帝无法改变数学,那么便不能称为万能。

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Couldn't it still be the case that as long as we take into account the importance of getting the right kinds of pleasures, then really pleasure is what it's all about and all that it's about? No, I think that's still not right.

它还说得通吗？,当我们考虑,正确的快乐的重要性时，那才是真正的快乐,而且仅为快乐？，不，我认为那还是不对。

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Maybe reading philosophy would be somethin that as long as you were doing it you couldn't die or, as perhaps some religious traditions might've taught, as long as you were engaged in prayer ? you couldn't die. Wouldn't that be nice?

也许看哲学书会是某件,只要你在做，你就不可能死的事，或者也许像某些宗教传统所说，只要你参与祷告,你就不可能死，那样岂不是很好？

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It couldn't be that people who have high SAT scores tend to do poorly in college.

否则就是说拿到SAT高分的人,在大学里会表现的比较差

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