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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

Young women think the information they get from their friends is rather good, and young men are rather doubtful about the information they get from their friends.

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They are lovingly put together, but feature a ghastly trio of (male) biographers sitting around chatting in The Ivy, Coward's favourite London restaurant, over what looks like a rather good lunch, when the subject cries out for one scholarly narrator with an overarching view and a rapidity of mind to rival Coward's own.

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Then of course there's the game itself, a rather good one, featuring a pair of rivals that made the 2008 Super Bowl one of the best ever.

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The BBC works for one rather good reason - it is a kind of independent corporation, but it is operating in a ferociously competitive market.

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Such firms are rather good at making specialist gear to order in small or medium-sized batches.

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Some analysts fear that concentrating resources on the high-tech stuff could compromise the heavy armour and jeopardise the army's ability to do the peacekeeping it tends to undertake with other Europeans, and which it is rather good at.

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Security Council is a rather good case study of how cocky Iran feels.

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Second thing we've been doing, I want to highlight for you is, we've along the way, mostly just verbally rather than writing it down, but we've been talking about good style.

我们一直在学的第二件事情是,我想给大家强调下，我们一直在口头上说，而没有把它写下来，但是我们一直在说优秀的风格。计算机科学及编程导论课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课

Same thing exactly, except that he would rather meet at the Good Shepherd.

唯一不同就是他更爱看《特工风云》博弈论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

Rather he'll say, "It's for the child's own good.

而是说，“这都是为了孩子好。心理学导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

Observers say their Chinese member-firms are rather good.

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Not surprisingly, he thinks he is rather good at it.

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No, they come from the polis when its laws are good and therefore when what the government provides is eunomia rather than the opposite.

不是,它们来源于古希腊的城邦,当法律完善之时,也意味着优秀的政府,而非恶政当道古希腊历史简介课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

Mr Bush was rather good at bipartisan government when he needed to be, as governor of Texas in the 1990s.

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It once enjoyed a reputation for discipline and respecting human rights, but its officers have long since grown corrupt, its troops incompetent and rather good at running away.

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It now provides the panoply of comforts that the well-heeled modern traveller demands: quiet air-conditioning, international telephones, satellite television, cappuccino and rather good cheesecake.

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It not only feels normal to have Mr Bloomberg as mayor, but also normal to think that he is rather good at it.

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It is that she makes her principal target, the current president, look rather good.

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In fact, in spite of receiving some hate mail in the process, I think he did a rather good job.

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In all, the Labour leader was in rather good form, deftly adapting her content instead of relying solely upon prepared material.

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If we want to get anyplace on the question about the nature of the good life, what we need to focus on is not the instrumental goods and bads, but rather the intrinsic goods and bads.

如果我们想在,何为“好的人生的本质“问题上得出结论，我们需要专注的不是利用价值的好与坏，而是固有价值的好与坏。死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

If the chance of death would add a kind of zest, then perhaps the ubiquity of death is actually a good thing rather than a bad thing.

如果死亡的可能性增加是一种兴趣，那么也许死亡的无处不在,事实上是一件好事而非坏事。死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

I'd rather be a good guy than a bad guy-but I'd rather be a rich bad guy than a poor good guy.

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I think a good WHCF uses that influence not to promote his own agenda rather to fufill the president's agenda.

但我想一个好的办公室主任,不是用影响力来推动自己的日程,而是完成总统的日程。国际座谈会课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课

His vocals are often rushed and hopelessly off key, which is a shame because when he's in tune, like on the Bob Seger number We've Got Tonight, he's really rather good.

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From everyone else's point of view, Australians have an annoying, almost arrogant habit of being rather good at most sports.

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Don't we already know that people can be rather good at co-operating, and are not always mercilessly hostile towards their rivals?

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Chief executive Tom Enders said the company "had a rather good start into 2013" and remained focused on improving profitability "in 2013 and beyond".

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But while many people find hunting repugnant, new research from the US suggests that shooting ducks has actually been rather good for the species.

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But many Chinese think their country is having a rather good crisis.

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But even allowing for such prejudice this is really a rather good story about Google.

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Being in control of your own monetary and fiscal policies is, as Southern Europe is now showing us, really a rather good idea.

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At CNET, we've seen interest in the brand increase by over 800% in a year, based on our internal data, as it released a series of cheap Android phones that were actually rather good.

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Another trend in the past few years has been the growth of jobs that demand good breeding rather than good exam results.

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And it requires us to understand history not in moral terms, such as "good" and "evil," but rather in aesthetic terms.

它需要我们,不是以道德层面去理解历史，去判断好坏“,而是要从审美的角度去看。现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

All of which I take as being rather good news myself.

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"We think that,in the long run, more legitimacy is good for that cooperation rather than less, and that more representation and more good governance and more democracy will give regimes the legitimacy they need to pursue a strategic relationship with the U.S."

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"Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good, " he says.

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"If I could get done what I think needs to get done in four years, even if it meant that I was only president for four years, I would rather be a good president taking on the tough issues for four years, than a mediocre president for eight years,".

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"He was one of these people who had ideas and he had this sudden idea that it would be educationally rather good to put together a geometric system whereby you could nut and bolt things together, " he said.

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