It can never be a kind of cosmopolis, a world state or even a league of states or nations.

它永远不可能成为国际都会或世界之都，或甚至是国联或族联。

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In short, the only thing to do in life is to provide, and provide is just what you cannot ever adequately do, as the husband in "Home Burial" knows.

总而言之，生命中唯一能做的就是给予，而且给予永远不够，像那个“家冢“中的丈夫知道的那样。

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No friend that I've ever talked with is one that I actually would want to spend eternity talking to.

我交谈过的朋友中没有一个,是我想与之永远交谈的。

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That, in neon, is what Peter the Great did above all and for which he shall most be remembered.

彼得大帝曾探求着调和两者之间的解决之道,他所做的这些努力应该被永远铭记

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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism," Kant wrote, "can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."

康德认为，简单地默许于怀疑论，永远无法平息内心渴望理性思考之不安“

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It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

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So what follows, in one sense, that when Aristotle says that man is by nature a political animal and the city is by nature, the city can never be a universal state.

这响应了，亚里士多德所说,人类天生是政治动物,而城市是自然的演变，城市永远不能是一座万国之城。

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Now, of course, that's a bit of a cheat because the claim isn't to spend eternity doing math problems and nothing but math problems.

当然这有欺人之嫌,因为并非要求永远解决数学问题,其他什么都不做。

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And it's of course possible to say, well, just imagine a friend that you would want to talk through all eternity to. But the whole point is, I can't imagine what that would be like.

当然可以说，想象一个你想与之,永远长谈的朋友，但问题是，我无法想象那种情景。

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