《富足社会》是一部现代经典著作，因为它帮助定义了人类处境的一个新时刻。

The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition.

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这是关于人类处境的一个事实，我们不能保持了不起。

It's a fact about the human condition that the amazing things we are don't stay amazing.

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我们惟一可做的事，就是反抗不由我们选择的人类处境。

The only thing we can do is to fight against the human situation we choose.

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Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

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So let's ask ourselves, are there any interaction effects when we talk about the human condition ? that it's life followed by death?"

所以让我们问问自己，当我们讨论,生后即是死的人类处境时,有没有相互影响“

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His examples are typically drawn from situations of human beings or polities in extremes where the very survival or independence of a society is at stake.

他的范例是,典型地取材自人类,或政体在极端下的处境,即当存活或一个社会的独立,已面临考验。

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