We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

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They are going to be denigrated because they maintain cults that rival the central sanctuary of Jerusalem And this is going to be what does them in.

他们会被诋毁,因为他们保持着崇拜耶路撒冷中心圣所的宗教传统,这就会使他们陷于诋毁。

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The New Criticism, incontestably and without rival, created an atmosphere in which it was okay to notice that things were a little more difficult than they'd been supposed to be.

新批评派，无可厚非，创造了一种很好的风气，大家似乎都能欣然接受,那些看起来还比较复杂的东西。

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In any case, Aristotle returned to Athens later on and established a school of his own, a rival to the Platonic Academy " that he called the Lyceum.

无论如何，亚里士多德后来回到雅典,并建立了他自己的学校，和柏拉图的学院打擂台,他称之为，“学园。

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rival theories about the key to personal identity.

关于人格同一性的,3个理论。

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The anger here is directed against the superficial, the flashy, liturgies read by the Laudian priests, but I think it's also being directed at the lean and flashy songs that are being written by Milton's poetic contemporaries, his rival poets.

这里表现出的愤怒，很明显是针对，劳德式牧师们虚伪浮华的礼拜式，但我认为这也是针对这些本身很虚华,由弥尔顿同时代的诗人所写的颂歌。

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But these stories rival, and implicitly polemicize against, the myths or mythologies of Israel's neighbors.

这些故事相矛盾，且隐含着相反含意，与以色列的杜撰故事和神话传说。

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We now have two rival explanations, the soul, dualist, explanation that we went into the other world and the physicalist, promissory note that we can explain the white lights and the feeling of euphoria and seeing your body from a distance in physical terms.

我们现在有两个对立的解释,二元论解释是灵魂,因此我们进入,到了另一个世界的,而物理主义,从物理角度,用期票解释了,白光,兴奋的感觉,以及在远处看到自己身体的现象

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instead of pursuing the questions of how exactly that theory should go, notice that if we had that theory ... we could still evaluate in principle-- whatever the practical difficulties might be-- in principle we could still evaluate rival lives.

我们不去研究,那种理论如何发挥作用，即便我们有那种理论,原则上我们仍然可以-,不管实际困难是什么-,原则上我们仍然可以评价其他生活。

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