I've never seen anyone like them.' 'I found them in the West.'" So, there is that sense of the West as a source, and what he's going to do is take them back East.

我从未见过像他们一样的人’,’我在西部遇到他们的’“,对新西部的感觉成了一个源点，而他正想要把这群人带回东部。

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For I did not take pleasure as the multitude does in those who say many things, but in those who teach the things that are true.

因为我不像多数人一样,喜欢那些夸夸其谈的人，我喜欢那些说真话的人。

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what Tolstoy is trying to convince us of, what he's trying to argue, by illustrating the claim, I take it, that Tolstoy is making, is that most of us are actually in Ivan Ilyich's boat.

托尔斯泰试图通过这个故事，阐述给我们，要说服我们相信的东西，我认为他要说的是,我们中大多数人都像Ivan，Ilyich一样。

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