It would have been perfectly reasonable for them, his opponents, to assume that only one set of religious beliefs could actually represent the truth, that there was only one possible manifestation of divine truth.

这本应该是他的反对者们最完美的理由,去设想仅仅一整套的宗教信条就可以代表真理，只有一个虔诚的真理的表达。

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Opponents of animal testing are quick to point out that it's not a humane way to learn scientific facts.

动物实验的反对者很快就指出，利用这种方法得到科学事实是不人道的。

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What about my expected payoff from choosing Middle against , so in this case where I think it's equally likely that my opponents going to choose Left or Right?

那我在情况下,选中的预期收益是什么呢,在此情况下我依然认为,对手选左选右的可能性相同

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Our opponent understands our ironies, and there is, it seems to me, a perfect kind of symbiosis, ironically enough, between political opponents precisely maybe in the measure to which their ironies are mutually intelligible.

政敌同样也了解我们的讽刺，我认为，这其中有一种共生关系，足够讽刺的是,敌对的两派之间,恰恰好能相互理解对方的讽刺。

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More importantly, the Homeric heroes are said to be bad role models for those who follow them, they are shown to be intemperate in sex, into these vices Socrates adds cruelty and disregard for the dead bodies of one's opponents.

最重要的是，荷马英雄们被说成是坏榜样,对他们的追随者而言，他们都太过纵欲、,还有被苏格拉底冠以残忍,与漠视对手尸体的恶行。

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One side wins the argument and the battle, and sometimes the ill will is so great that the losing side feels either that it has to flee for its safety, or it chooses to flee rather than to live under their opponents.

若是其中一方获胜,有时候失势的一方面临威胁,会离开这个地方以求自保,或者是逃离他们的敌对派系的压迫

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The assumption that your opponents are being rational as well.

你需要假设你对手也是理性的

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The idea was to think of a strategy that is the best you can do, given your belief about what the other people are doing: what your opponents are doing, what other players are doing.

在你已经对别人如何行动有一定信念时,你能想到的最佳的策略,你的对手会怎么做,其他人又会怎么做

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