They are mere personifications of abstract ideas, and it's not at all clear that Sin and her son, Death, exist as individual entities in the same way, or on the same plane, that Satan does, for example, or Beelzebub.

他们仅仅是将抽象的思想拟人化的结果，但我们不清楚的是罪恶之神和她的儿子死神，以同样的方式或在同一个星球作为独立的个体存在，例如撒旦或者苍蝇王比尔泽布也是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It can't exist as a force that conceives a human individual from the outside without that individual's consent because we all freely sin. No one can be compelled to do anything within the Miltonic theology of free will.

不存在那种不经人类同意就从外界,构造人类个体的力量,因为我们都自由地带着原罪，在弥尔顿自由意志的学说下,没有人被强迫做任何事。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And I think--This strategy is one I'm very enthusiastic about but there still remains what's sometimes called the "Hard Problem of Consciousness" and this involves subjective experience.

这是我所热衷的策略,但却依然存在着,所谓的"意识难题",而这牵涉到个体的主观感受

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Those of you taken psych 1, those of you haven't, " may have heard of the "Asch Conformity Experiment", where people conformed to the idea of the group.

修读或没修读过初级心理学的，可能都听说过“阿施从众心理实验，个体对群体存在从众现象。

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It is a right that attaches to individuals as human beings, even before government comes on the scene, even before parliaments and legislatures enact laws to define rights and to enforce them.

这种权利依附于个体而存在，甚至早于任何政府的建立，甚至早在任何议会和立法机关,制定法律定义权利并强制实施前，就已存在。

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