我承认我是抱着怀疑的态度来看待这个问题的，我相信我们往往会被自己想要把所有事情都减少到可以量化的欲望冲昏头脑。

I confess I enter this in a skeptical frame of mind, believing that we tend to get carried away in our desire to reduce everything to the quantifiable.

youdao

关于爱情，我的理解是把我和这样或那样的生物绑在一起的欲望、情感和智慧的混合体。

Of love, I know only that mixture of desire, affection, and intelligence that binds me to this or that creature.

youdao

当我被选为班长时，我有一股想要证明自己的欲望。

I had a thirst to prove myself when I was elected monitor.

youdao

So imagine that over the weekend, the mad scientist copied my memories, beliefs,desires,fears,ambitions,goals, intentions and imprinted that on somebody else's brain.

想象一下一个周末，某个疯狂科学家复制了我的记忆，信仰，欲望，恐惧，野心，目标，以及意向，并植入另一个人的大脑。

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Right? It's like my needs, my desires are more important than yours and mine take precedent.

就好比是，我的需要与欲望比你的更重要,所以要优先考虑我。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Slowly I began to forge in the depths of my mind" this is the very top of the page--" a mechanism that repressed all the dreams and desires that the Chicago streets, the newspapers, the movies were evoking in me.

渐渐地，我开始进入自己的思想“,这是最上面的一句“,“这期间抑制住了芝加哥的街道、,报纸、电影在我心中唤起的，所有幻想和欲望。

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