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Why is it, Bering wondered, that even a determined skeptic could not stop himself from perceiving the supernatural?
白令想知道，爲什麽一個堅定的無神論者，居然無法阻止自己感知超自然的東西？
Not because he would suddenly have ceased to believe in his mission—he was too enlightened to be a skeptic—but because death for others is harder to bear than one's own death.
這竝不是因爲他突然不再相信自己的使命——他太明智了，所以不會成爲一個懷疑論者，而是因爲比起自己的死亡，更難以承受的是他人的死亡。
He has an almost embarrassing faith in the power of facts to persuade both believer and skeptic.
他有著讓你慙愧的信仰，用事實的力量來說服相信者和懷疑者。

Well, this is the question raised by the skeptic about skepticism or about theory and it's one that we're going to take rather seriously, but we're going to come back to it because there are ways, it seems to me, of keeping this question at arm's length.
這是由對懷疑論或理論持懷疑態度的人提出來的問題,也是我們要認真探討的，但是我們還會廻來繼續討論，因爲對我而言，我們需要和這個問題保持一定距離。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選
And to the monarchists, he was a dangerous skeptic and free thinker.
而對於君主論者，他又是個危險地懷疑分子和自由思想家。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選
It makes him a skeptic about revealed religion.
不是的這使他對天啓教産生了懷疑。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選

New York University economist William Easterly is what you might call a compassionate skeptic.
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