He concluded ruefully that it was "arrogant and rash" to profess virtues that you cannot live up to, and retreated into indolent seclusion.

他懊悔地总结道，宣称自己信奉不能修行到的美德是非常“自傲和轻率的”。最终，他选择隐居，不理世事。

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Edward Ferrars: I-I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.

爱德华：我来这里并不抱任何期望，只想向你表白——既然我已能自由地这么做了——我的心，永远都属于你。

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

不勇敢时能做的最勇敢的事，是展现勇气并身体力行。

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It is what you profess. Well, the thesis is also, another way to think of it, an answer to a question.

它就是你要表达的东西，这个论文也是，另一种思考它的方式，关于一个问题的答案。

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And, Hobbes tell us he would banish all doctrines that profess to make the individual or the sect, more importantly in some ways the sect, the judge of the sovereign.

霍布斯说，他将谴责那些,主张个人主义或教派主义的学说，以及那些对君主提出批判，的教派势力。

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They profess to have the same values, but the outcome of the execution, implementation of their values is the Iraq War and the mess and the whole mess that we find ourselves in today.

他们公开宣称具有同样的价值观，但他们的价值付诸实施的结果是,是伊拉克战争，是一团糟,我们现在正身处其中。

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