I desire to engage in exercise and I value exercise extrinsically, not for its own sake, but as a means to something beyond it.

我喜欢锻炼并看重其外在价值，并不是因为锻炼本身，而是把它作为达到一些目的的手段。

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So I desire to engage an exercise and I value exercise extrinsically, not for its own, sake but as a means to something beyond it.

所以我运动，是因为我看重它的外在价值，而不是它本身，是把它作为达成另一目的一种方式。

youdao

Most tycoons like the idea of their children running their empires when they are dead; I suppose part of it is a subconscious desire for immortality.

多数企业大亨希望，在自己去世后，由子女接管他们的帝国；我猜想这在一定程度上是出于对永生的潜意识渴望。

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It's the same desire for some kind of sacrificial substitution that, I think, is fueling the poem's ending.

这和为诗歌最后的结尾火上浇油的，牺牲性的替代是毫无差别的。

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