And do not be tempted to say, "Isn't it wonderful that the way nature works is that babies are cute?

不要受诱惑做某事，孩子可爱，是不是大自然的杰作？

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or "Oh, really?" and not say, "Well, that's rubbish, isn't it?"

或者“哦，真的吗？”，而不会说，“天啦，真是垃圾。不是吗？”

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That's not to say that sacrifice is abolished, it's not to say that sacrifice isn't important to Deuteronomy--very far from it, it's an essential part of God's service for Deuteronomy.

也就是说献祭被摒弃了，并不是说在申命记,中献祭不再重要，远不是那样，这是申命记中最核心的侍奉上帝的方式之一。

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If you stop and think of it as a grammatical question, you say to yourself, "Gee, that's a very good question, isn't it, because, of course, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the dancer from the dance.

如果你停下来，把它当成一个语法型问句，你对自己说，“哈，那是个很好的问题，不是吗“,因为，当然，世界上最简单的事,就是将舞者和舞蹈分开。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You know we all say, "Ah, nature, isn't nature nice? Isn't it pretty?"

我们常说：,“啊！自然！自然不是很美妙吗？自然不是很美好吗？“

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And you might say, wait a minute, isn't that a string, and the answer's no, I didn't say it's a string by putting quotes around it And notice how the machine responds differently to it.

你会想，等等，这不是个字符串么？,答案是否定的，我没用引号包围它就意味着它不是字符串,请注意计算机对它给出了不同的反应。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Some of the things I said--you'd probably say, well I should have known that an insurance company would have to do that, but it isn't.

对于我说的一些东西，你可能会说，我早就知道,保险公司会如此操作，但事实并非如此。

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Well, not now My death can't be bad for me now I'm not dead But it's not 100% clear that the other alternative isn't acceptable "? Why not say,"My death is bad for me when I'm dead"?

至少不是现在,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我又没死,但另一种情况我们也不能百分百,确定是不可接受的,为什么不能说，“死亡在我死的时候对我来说是有坏处的？

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So, for example, in around 1900 in America or a little bit earlier, let's say 1880 in America, it really isn't clear that it was illegal to write agreements to say we'll restrict quantities.

比如1900年甚至更早的美国,假如是1880年的美国吧,在当时这种限制产量的合同是否违法,在司法上没有明确的界定

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You're probably a little frustrated because maybe you sort of anticipated what he was going to say, and then you read it and you said, "Gee, he really isn't saying that.

如果你差不多猜出了他要说什么的话,你可能会有点沮丧，如果你读这篇文章，就会说：“哎呀，他不是这个意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You may say to yourself, "Well, isn't it always the case that meaning is important and that meaning is hard to construe?"

你可能这样说：,“难道意义不是一直都很重要的吗？,确定意义不是一直都很困难吗？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We might say, well, it's not true now Death isn't bad for me now I'm not dead now ? Maybe death is bad for me when I'm dead?

我们可能会说，反正现在不是真的,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我现在又没死,也许当我死的时候死亡对我有坏处？

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