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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，为什么一个坚定的无神论者，居然无法阻止自己感知超自然的东西？
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.
这并不是因为他突然不再相信自己的使命——他太明智了，所以不会成为一个怀疑论者，而是因为比起自己的死亡，更难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.
他有着让你惭愧的信仰，用事实的力量来说服相信者和怀疑者。

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.
这是由对怀疑论或理论持怀疑态度的人提出来的问题,也是我们要认真探讨的，但是我们还会回来继续讨论，因为对我而言，我们需要和这个问题保持一定距离。
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And to the monarchists, he was a dangerous skeptic and free thinker.
而对于君主论者，他又是个危险地怀疑分子和自由思想家。
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It makes him a skeptic about revealed religion.
不是的这使他对天启教产生了怀疑。
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New York University economist William Easterly is what you might call a compassionate skeptic.
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