You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.

你可以说,这较不像是真实主张的本体,而较像是狡猾的诀窍意识,或说政治悟性。

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Yet how many people could give a kind of reasoned account of ? what makes these beliefs true ? or what grounds these beliefs?

但多少人会能,给一个合理的解释,是什么让这些信念成真,它们的根据为何？

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You can see in the New World with maize being important how America has become a corn dominated society, even though it's still true that we raise wheat, we raise other things in the United States, and we can import different foods, corn has become an incredibly important constituent of the diet in the U.S.

你能发现玉米在美洲大陆的重要性,那美洲是怎样变成主食玉米的社会的呢,尽管我们仍然种植小麦,在美国也种植其他粮食,而且我们能进口各种不同食物,但是玉米还是变成了,美国人食谱中不可代替的部分

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