He was long in choosing the subject of his heroic song and, as we know from all of -- and we've encountered a number of them - all of those protestations of delay Milton began his epic late.

他久久未能确定他要写的英雄之歌的主题，这我们从从弥尔顿多次声言,自己的史诗动笔很晚就能看出。

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Think of it. Think of many of our great political models or heroes.

思考一下,思考一下我们诸多伟大的政治模范与英雄。

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So, you see what I'm driving at; we know those guys.

现在你明白,我们知晓的英雄是这些人

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One offer of one more idea which is to take a figure who we all know about, but who we view as, maybe a civil rights hero or an African-American hero, or a Christian hero, or an American hero and turn into a global interfaith hero.

再给大家提供一个重要观点,那就是选择一位众所周知的人物，但是我们可能将他视作民权运动英雄,或是非裔美国人英雄，或是基督教英雄，或是美国英雄,然后转变为一位全球跨信仰英雄。

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Now, I guess I'm out of time. So, I'll pick up the story next time with the story about this heroic ethic and the impact that it has on Greek society.

好的,我想时间已经过了,下次课我们接着谈这种英雄主义的伦理观,及其对古希腊社会的影响

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It is clearly connected this notion of spiritedness or this thumotic quality to our capacities for heroism and for self-sacrifice.

这样定义的意志,或说，Thumos，特质,明显地与我们追求英雄主义及献身有关连。

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Everybody knows that all those heroes are there because they want to be and they want to be there, so that they can earn both the wealth that can be taken from a defeated city, but even more important, the kind of fame and glory that comes with such deeds.

我们都知道,所有去战斗的英雄们,都是自愿的,他们想去战斗是因为,他们可以赢得从战败的城市获得的财富,更重要的是,由这些功绩带来的名望和荣誉

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