The power to know is our ability to recognize, by sight, members of the same polis or city.

求知的能力,是我们透过双眼辨别，同一城邦或城市成员的能力。

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His curious fancy is more active than his desire. Or, you might say, his desire to know is more active than his desire to love.

他好奇的本质比欲望更强烈，或许你们会说，他求知的欲望比爱的欲望强烈。

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First, the power to know, you could say.

第一，求知的能力。

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As she goes further and further in to her search for knowledge-- - and finally her abandonment of that search of knowledge-- she sees more and more that this is not just pattern, that it's these storm systems of suffering and need.

在她逐渐深入的求知过程-,和她最后放弃了对知识的寻找-,她越来越明白这不是模式，而是苦难而又需要的风暴系统。

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