Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

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We're able to think about the farthest reaches of the universe and ask what our place is in the universe.

我们可以思考宇宙最远的可到达处,并问我们在宇宙中的位置是什么。

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And since we don't know the absolute up and down in the universe, it is possible that some of the electrons may be spinning up.

由于我们在宇宙里,并不知道什么是绝对的上和下，所以说上面的现象很有可能是,一些电子向上自旋引起的。

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Being a very small part of that, and part of changing our scale from where we constantly see ourselves as the most important thing in the universe, to suddenly being just a tiny piece.

我们只是宇宙的渺小的一员，我们应当改变我们的观念,不应将自己看做是,宇宙中最重要的，我们只是微小的尘埃。

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The system, it's that part of the universe that we're studying.

系统是宇宙的一部分,它是我们研究的对象。

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The first is this, that emotions are basically mechanisms that set goals and priorities and we're going to talk a lot about in this class and the next class about universals.

首先，情感是基本机制,设定目标及事务优先级,我们将谈论很多关于宇宙的话题,在这堂课和下堂课。

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But how we want to know does Aristotle reconcile his account of the term baseleia the king of overall with his earlier emphasis upon democratic deliberation and shared rule the citizen recall is one who takes turn ruling and being ruled in turn.

但我们想知道的是亚里士多德,如何调配，Baseleia，宇宙王,与他先前对民主商议与分享统治公民的强调,回想一下，即大家轮流统治,且被统治者相对服从,当读者探究亚里士多德对王权的论述。

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we are the envy of the rest of the universe It's not so much that immortality, what the rest of them have, is unattractive or boring.

我们是宇宙其他生命羡慕的对象,不是说其他生命所拥有的不朽，是没有吸引力的，是让人厌烦的。

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And because of this we are the envy of the rest of the universe.

正因为如此，我们是宇宙其他生命羡慕的对象。

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In the universe we-- Who knows what is out there in the universe but at least on Earth we may well be the only people there are.

在宇宙中，我们-,谁知道宇宙中有什么,但至少在地球上我们很可能是唯一的。

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There's a short story by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, where the basic point of the story is that of all the life forms in the universe, we, here on Earth, are the only ones that are mortal.

科幻作家Orson，Scott，Card写了一个短故事，该故事的主旨是,在宇宙的所有生命形式中，我们，在地球上是唯一终有一死的生命。

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