So this is a piece by Strauss where he's trying to resurrect the content, or mirror the content, of a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and it's about the unleashing of human capacity as it comes forth from the primordial earth here.

通过这个片段,施特劳斯正试着,重新诠释或者再现弗里德里希·尼采,的哲学著作查拉图斯特拉如是说的内容,这部作品是关于人类能力的释放,时间设定在人类从原始的世界出现之后

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First of all, negative time should not bother anybody; t=0 is when I set the clock, I measured time forward, but yesterday would be t = -1 day, right?

首先,负的时间对我们不存在任何干扰,t=0使我们设定的初始时间,我是用顺序计时,所以昨天就可以记为-1天,对吗

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