At some point, I gave up that desire, I didn't want to be a trash collector anymore.

我放弃了那个渴望，我不再想做一名垃圾工。

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And I think frankly that is irresponsible to completely throw away this useful tool

所以，我认为，完全放弃这样一种有用的工具也是十分不负责任的。

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And in conclusion he imagines giving up that terrific drive towards imagination and idealization and a return to the "rag and bone shop of the heart."

结尾时他想象,放弃这一想象力和理想化的,极妙的创作驱动力,回到污秽的心的废品铺“

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And you see this, going back to Socrates, there's a dialogue, the Gorgias, in which one of Socrates' friends, Callicles, tries to talk him out of philosophizing.

追溯到苏格拉底时代，就有这样一段对话，在《高尔吉亚篇》中，苏格拉底的一位朋友，卡里克利斯，试图说服苏格拉底放弃哲学思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Is this really tolerance ? or is it rather a form of moral decay that has simply decided to abandon the search for truth ? and standards of judgment?

这真的是容忍吗,还只是另一种形式的道德沦丧,只不过是决定,放弃找寻真理,和判断的标准？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, one of the reasons why people would-- it's unthinkable for someone like me or for probably most of you to imagine giving up your rights to a kind of absolute rule, though we seem to be in a situation like that, where that's happened quite a lot recently, even in this own country.

我或者你们中绝大多数的人,很难想象会有这么多人,宁愿放弃自己的权利,而屈从于一种绝对王权的原因,尽管在我们国家,最近类似的事情层出不穷,让我们仿佛能够感同身受

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And Mark has been extraordinary, as a leader, in maintaining a very high bar and at times, walking away from people who are receiving outstanding recommendations but either don't fit from a cultural standpoint or they're not going to scale and they'd be the wrong person a year or two from now.

作为Facebook的领导者，马克始终坚持选人标准，从不手软，他经常会放弃一些,得到强有力推荐的应聘者,他们要么是在文化方面不契合,要么是因为，如果公司没打算扩张,那他们在一到两年内,会成为错误选择。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

His career, where he attempted many times to play roles that were different from his Vulcan nature, stalled until finally many years later he gave up and wrote another book called I Am Spock where he finally conceded to the fundamental attribution error.

在他的演艺生涯中，他多次想扮演,不同于Vulcan人特征的角色时，都没演成，终于很多年以后,他放弃了，并写了一本书《我是Spock》,他终于在基本归因错误面前让步了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选