This is a scene of whether you as a writer compromise yourself in the face of authority that resists what you want to say.

场景是作者在面临权威坚持提出反对意见时,是否妥协你想要表达的内容。

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Or perhaps, you could set a goal to lose weight and you could work very hard.

又或者，你制定了一个减肥的目标，你为此而努力坚持着。

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And I can be that standing in my own faith because really what you become is an example, a model of an engaged faithful person who is now working so hard to bring people different religion traditions together."

我能坚持自己的信仰,因为你成为的那个人是,一个有信仰的人，他正在致力于,使不同的宗教传统融合“

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You could try to figure out how to mesh your scientific view of the mind with these humanist values you might want to preserve.

你可以去试试,看如何将科学心理观,与你所想坚持的人文观念相契合

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Your soul is in deep danger if you indeed continue to lead the life that you have mainly been leading up to now, and those two things are in conflict.

如果你继续坚持你一贯的意愿,想要主导你自己的生活的话,你的灵魂将陷入险境,这两种意识总是起冲突

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So you, you tend to stick with your own, you know, people from Europe.

所以你不得不坚持你自己，对于那些来自欧洲的人们。

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Or maybe you're working with your friend, and your friend is very overwhelmed

又或者你在跟你的朋友一起干活，你朋友累得实在坚持不下去了。

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Now, they have no choice, they cannot rely as human beings typically do on just doing what your parents did, just inheriting a tradition that functions, that works, that keeps you going.

不过他们别无选择,他们不能像人类常做的那样,依靠重复父辈做的事,继承传统的职责,工作,这些能激励你坚持下去

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