We find ourselves in today's reading, Areopagitica in the middle of the English Revolution, sometimes called the Puritan Revolution.
我们在今天的阅读中发现自己,《论出版自由》,在英国革命,也就是有时被称为清教改革,的过程中。
Hobbes, in many ways, finds himself in the position of the young military lawyer played in the following movie clip. I'm going to show you.
很多时候,霍布斯会发现自己,深陷在某种困境里,就像我们马上要看的,这部影片中一位年青军事律师所处的困境一样。
The problems are set up so that, if you start down the right path, it should be pretty straight-forward to work it through If you start down a plausible but incorrect path, you can sometimes find yourself stuck in the weeds somewhere, and we want to bring you back in.
问题提出了,如果你从,一开始就走正确的道路,解决的途径,就一目了然了,如果你走上一条貌似正确但实际错误的道路,你会在某时某刻,发现自己陷入泥沼,于是我们就会把你拉回来。
But we're not asking, is it rational or irrational to not believe that your body's going to die, we're simply asking, noting the fact that, there to seem to be cases where people are surprised to discover that they're mortal.
但我们不是在探讨不相信肉体的死亡,是否合理,我们只是提出,人们发现,有人可能对发现自己将会死亡,感到非常出乎意料。
in which we suddenly find ourselves, without meaning to and without being simply victims of any sort of cultural tyranny, standing in front of something, clasping our hands, tilting our head and feeling somehow or another different from the way we feel when we typically look at things.
我们会突然发现,自己毫无理由地,不受任何外在因素控制地,站在一样东西面前,拼命地鼓掌,歪着头品味,感觉到此时此刻的感受,与平时不同。
As excited -- as aroused -- as we might find ourselves by this imagining of Milton actually playing Comus, of course his performance in that role can't be asserted in any way definitively.
我们会发现自己很兴奋,当在我们想象弥尔顿真的在饰演Comus的时候,当然他演那个角色的表现,我们不能以任何方式来判断。
Now this is where the omniscient narrator comes in quite forcefully, and gives us something to work on as we analyze Haze and we think about who he is as a character and where he finds himself.
万能的叙述者就这样,富有说服力的出现了,同时在我们分析Haze的时候,给我们带来了问题,让我们去想这个角色到底是谁,他在哪里发现自己。
Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.
同样,如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释,这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上,我们不相信自己会死,然后我们说,看,这让我们有理由相信,我们并不相信我们会死,即使我们口头上说相信。
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