I'll 'cast the lion's cub into the valley, ' which, you see, meant pretty much the same thing.

这下你明白了吧，这两句话差不多就是一个意思。

Finally, the author points out that many people in the European Renaissance thought that rhetoric and society were pretty much the same thing.

作者指出，在欧洲文艺复兴时期，人们相信修辞学和社会很大程度上是一回事。