But the top U.S.diplomat for Afghanistan has told the British broadcaster a rerun of the tainted election is "out of the question."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

We finished Black Boy last time, and one of the big questions coming out of my discussion of that autobiography is: how do you manage the question of context in reading a novel or an autobiography--in reading any text?

我们上次讲完了《黑孩子》,在关于那部自传的讨论中随之而来,的一个重要问题是：,当你在读小说、自传或者其他文本时,怎么处理上下文？

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The crucial question is,what did you want out of survival?

关键问题是，你想从生存中得到什么？

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Putting aside,for the most part,the soul view, because I've argued that there are no souls-- although occasionally I bring it out just for the sake of comparison and contrast-- the main question we want to ask ourselves is how to choose between the body view and the personality view.

基本上可以把灵魂理论放到一边，因为我已经说过不认为有灵魂存在-,尽管有时候我会提到这个词,但那只是为了便于对比和比照-,我们要探讨的一个主要问题是,如何在两者之间取舍。

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