And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

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Maybe an evil demon, for instance, has tricked me, has deluded me into thinking I have experiences that aren't real."

或许是有个恶魔在戏弄我,让我产生错觉,感受到了一些并不存在的东西"

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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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And his eyes have all the seeming of a Demon that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

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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 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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Maybe it would be deceived by an artful demon.

你也可能是被某个艺术化的神怪欺骗了双眼。

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There was an evil demon called Kali who hated Nala and wanted to bring his downfall, so he had to find a weakness of Nala.

有个名叫迦梨的恶魔很讨厌那勒,并且想使他一蹶不振,所以他必须要找到那勒的弱点

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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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We've got, roughly, germ theory and we've got demon theory.

把它们概括一下,微生物理论和恶魔理论

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