Now you do have an opportunity-- this class does- that my class has never had before, and that is to nominate your own novel for the last one that we read, one of your choice.

现在你真的有了个机会-,在我的课上有了个机会-,去推荐一本小说作为我们的最后一本读物,你们自己的选择。

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We ourselves, of course, have no choice whatsoever in the matter.

我们自己，当然没有任何选择的余地。

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And so what we have to ask ourselves is ? what's the alternative?

所以我们要问自己的是,还有什么可选择的？

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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