So most of us here, whatever we do in our lives, now and in the future, are idealists.

我们在座的多数人，不论做什么，从现在到未来，都是理想主义者。

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Whether and to what extent the Russian formalists and their allies, the Futurists--among them Mayakovsky and others felt a kind of antagonism or growing threat from the government is not wholly clear to me.

俄国的形式主义者和他们的同盟，未来主义者，比如玛雅可夫斯基,或多或少的感觉到了来自政府的敌意,这一点我并不十分清楚。

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But, in February of 1871 there are elections and the provinces, particularly the conservative, western provinces like Brittany return this extremely monarchist dominated National Assembly that is going to determine the future of France.

在一八七一年二月,举行了一系列选举,并且那些守旧城市,像西部城市布列塔尼,那里的国民大会,又重新被极端君主专制主义者们掌握,而这将决定法国的未来

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And notice by the by, that when we make choices about our future, from the hedonist point of view, at least, there's no particular need to dwell a whole lot on the past, because what's done is done.

需要注意的是，当我们,为未来作选择时，起码享乐主义者认为，不必过分着眼于过去，因为过去的已经过去。

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