Those of you who don't believe in it have probably, at least, been tempted to believe in it.

那些并不相信这一观念的人,至少也想要去相信它

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The Greeks, however, combined a unique sense of mankind's high place in the natural order.

然而,希腊人,将人放在自然法则中的,至高地位,他们结合这一独特观念

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So, this is the other form that the aesthetic can take. And I think that Nabokov is consistently concerned about these two valences of what the aesthetic can look like.

那么这就是那种审美观念的,另一种形式，我认为纳博科夫一直十分关注这两种审美的,可能形式十分关注。

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How to formalize this idea?

那么该如何体制化这一观念呢？

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