Nala couldn't resist the opportunity to gamble, so the evil demon seduced him into gambling aggressively.

那勒无法抵挡赌博的魅力,所以恶魔就诱使他痴迷赌博

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The idea of The Matrix is explicitly built upon Cartesian— Descartes' worries about an evil demon.

黑客帝国》的创意,完全基于笛卡尔的哲学,笛卡尔对于恶灵的忧虑

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The fact of the matter is, demon theory doesn't do a very good job of explaining disease, while germ theory does do a good job.

事实上,恶魔理论并不能很好地解释疾病的问题,而微生物理论却能将问题分析得很透彻

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Or the physicalist can only do a rotten job of explaining, like demon theory did?

或者,物理主义者只能,提供一个很蹩脚的解释,就像恶魔理论那样

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