Paul Pillar at Georgetown University says if it is not war, then the Obama administration needs to spell out the exact nature of the struggle.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

So if we were to spell out the argument somewhat more fully, it might be, "We have free will, but you can't both have free will and be subject to determinism or subject to deterministic laws."

因此我们要更完整地阐述这个论证的话,它应该是,人有自由意志,但人不能既有自由意志,又遵从决定论 或服从确定性的定律

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Now, if we push the dualist to explain what is it about free will that rules out the possibility that we are merely physical objects, I think the natural suggestion to spell out the argument goes like this, and this is where we were at the end of last time.

现在如果我们让二元论者去解释,什么是自由意志,它又是如何否定,人仅仅是物理实体这种可能性的,我认为他们自然会这样,阐述这个论证,这是就我们在上节课结束时讲到的内容

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In a brief statement to reporters after the summit, Mr.Obama did not spell out a specific strategy designed to secure agreement, but European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso was upbeat that a deal could be struck.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

You just need to express in ASCII character, one at a time, and these brave souls are simply going to spell something out for us to hammer home this point of binary.

你们只需要每人代表一个ASCII码，这些勇敢的小伙子们就是想,清楚的让大家理解二进制原理。

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That's why I spent a couple of minutes trying to spell it out.

否则我也不会花这些时间去阐述它

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