他们缺少真正的目的，也没有明确的时间计划，未能暂停手头忙碌的事情，退后一步来问问我自己生命的意义何在。

They had no real motivation or clear timeline to stop what they were so busy at, to step back, to ask what exactly they were doing with their life.

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我们可以问问我们自己：是不是想赢？

We ask ourselves: are we going to win?

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我们不得不严肃地问问我们自己：随着日益增长的知识的力量，如果我们继续利用知识的这种双重性，将会发生什么样的情况呢？

We have to ask ourselves very seriously what will happen if this twofold use of knowledge, with its ever-increasing power, continues.

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It is true mathematically, you can add two numbers, but you've got to ask yourself,"What am I doing as a physicist when I add these two numbers?"

在数学上它是正确的,你可以引入这两个常数,但是你需要问问自己,当我引入这两个常数时,这么做有什么物理意义

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Do this in your head and ask, "What can I possibly get?"

心算一下然后问问自己,"我能求出什么"

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And ask yourself,Which one do I want to be tortured?

问问自己，我希望哪一个被折磨？

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