Okay, now the polis from the beginning, and it never stopped being what I'm about to say, chiefly agricultural communities.

好的,现在这些城邦开始了,我即将说到的,永无止息的社区化进程,主要在农业方面

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But precisely, the human part of you is going to rebel at the unending parade of simple rat-like pleasures.

更确切地，你的人性会反抗,一股股永无止尽的单调的老鼠般的快感。

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If I'm right in thinking immortality would be undesirable, then the fact that we're going to die is good, because it guarantees that we won't be immortal, which would be a nightmare, an unending nightmare.

如果永生不值得期许的观点是对的，那么我们终将一死的事实是好的，因为它保证我们不得永生，那是恶梦，一场永无止尽的恶梦。

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