And from the titles we know he considered for this book, none of them make that claim "The Life of Richard Wright."
从他为书起的名字就能知道,没有人提议书名应该是《理查?莱特的一生》
I mean, you only got one vehicle for life so if you put your body away, you know,
我是说,人一生就这么一个身体,要是身体没了,
We've just been there and meeting people, meeting Israelis and meeting Palestinians and meeting people who've lived their lives there.
我们在那里,遇见很多人,很多以色列人,遇见很多巴勒斯坦人,还遇见,在那里度过一生的人。
There was a pretender to the throne, and this man was--his life got off to an interesting start.
有一个觊觎王位的人,这个人的一生,有一个有趣的开始
The lifetime earnings of a tightwire walker who falls down and kills himself aren't very good.
一个掉下来摔死自己的走钢丝的人,他一生的收入也不会很好。
So this novel, this autobiography, begins with the sense that this boy is in danger from practically the moment he comes into the world, the moment he comes into consciousness.
这小说,这自传,让人一开始,就觉得这孩子,一生下来,就浸泡在苦水里。
And I imagine that for most of you, when you ask yourself, would you want your entire life ? to be spent hooked up to the experience machine?
我想你们中多数人,当你们自问,是否愿意,在体验机器上度过一生?
But over a lifetime, I think I would think almost a complete majority here would agree that they would rather be a human with higher pleasure than be that rat with intense pleasure for a momentary period of time.
但是就一生而言,我觉得,在场绝大部分人都会同意,他们更愿意做拥有更高级快乐的人,而不是只图一时快乐,做那只享受一时快感的鼠。
I want to end this premise idea by talking a little bit about a person for whom, one of the chief purpose in life was to spread happiness-- Mahatma Gandhi. This is a story about him.
我想以介绍一位,一生致力于,传播快乐的人来结论这个前提-,圣雄甘地,这是关于他的一个故事。
And then other people are really excited because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
而另外一些人真的很兴奋,因为这是一个一生只有一次的机会,
that you are just the best-dressed person that they've ever met.
觉得你是他们在这一生中见过最会打扮的人。
You make a life plan, what you want to accomplish in your life, and well, obviously enough, some of us will die too soon, not just in terms of, "oh, well, life still could've had good things," but too soon in terms of you didn't get where you wanted to get in terms of your life plan.
比如你订了一个一生的计划,写下你一生想实现的事情,显而易见我们中有些人会死得太早,死得太早并不是说,生活还有美好的事情“,死得太早是因为,你还没有实现你的人生计划。
I think a lot of us, we do what we can in this lifetime, hoping that we're are part of a long trajectory of a moral arch toward justice What would like to see in America in 20 years?
我认为我们之中很多人在一生中会竭力奋斗,希望我们能够沿着道德,正义的,的轨迹发展,您如何构想美国20年后的情景呢?
And for some people the balance is positive, " for some people perhaps the balance is negative, " whether for their life as a whole " or for certain stretches of their lives."
对某些人,结果是正数,“对某些人结果是负数,“不管是他们的一生,“或者他们生命的一段时间“
Although it would make me very, very sad to discover this, I suppose it's possible some of you have such bad lives that moving on to the experience machine would be a step up.
虽然我会很难过,我想你们中有些人一生不顺,连接上体验机器可能是个好转。
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