In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.

在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。

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It is that most of us are really making money for ourselves-- that's what we do with our lives--and whether or not that is moral.

我们绝大多数人,都在为自己赚钱,这就是我们生活的方式,赚钱方式也无论道德与否

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Whatever the details might be, we could describe lives and say, whether or not their life was good as a whole, what the future holds out for them is negative.

不管详细情况是什么，我们可以把他们的生活形容为，不管他们一生的生活是否美好，他们的未来都是不容乐观的。

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Here's the line that Homer writes, they live without the Greek word is nomoi, which we would translate as laws, but before they become laws they are the customary norms of society, in other words, civilization.

荷马有如下描写,他们的的生活脱离于nomoi,我们可以将其翻译为法律,但是在这些成为法律之前,它们是社会约定俗成的标准,换言之,就是文明

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