It better not be that everyone does everything alone, because--in whatever the relevant sense of alone turns out to be-- if everyone does everything alone, then of course that might be interesting.

而不是说每个人都是孤独地做着每件事情，因为不管孤独的定义是什么-,如果每个人都在孤独地做着每件事情，这说法固然很有趣。

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Last time we taught this class, we did a survey to find out what type of people were sitting in this room-- they are just like yourselves-- and find out why you'll be taking this class.

上一次我们教这门课时，我们做了一个调查，看看坐在这上课的都是什么类型的人-,他们就像你们一样-,看看为什么你们会上这门课。

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Well, if you take a look at the Greek civilization let us say in the classical period, those other cultures wouldn't have had a clue what the Greeks were doing, so different was the Greek experience from theirs.

如果你看一看希腊文明,让我们以古典时期为例,其他文明,都不会理解希腊人在做什么,希腊人与他们的经历是如此不同

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Well of course it's an important value to have in general that in order to be good neighbors in the world we need to understand it, we need to-- if we're going to be good citizens in the world we have to know what other people are doing and what's affecting us.

总的来说,它的重要之处在于,为了成为世界上其他国家的好邻居,我们要懂得,如果要成为世界上的一个好公民的话,我们得知道其他国家的人在做什么,是什么在影响我们

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