He was a very prominent exponent of the idea that people should go out for their own interest.

他是个非常卓越的倡导者,他提倡人们应该追求自己的利益

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But it was completely obvious that that was where the profit was shifting in the industry.

这非常明显地说明了,利益在行业内是不断变化的。

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Now, all of this would be fine if your unconscious was a reasonable, rational computer, if your unconscious was really smart and looking out for your best interest.

如果无意识是台理智的计算机,它非常聪明，总在为你寻求最佳利益,那其实也倒没什么。

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The common good comes right out of enlightened thought.

公共利益"是非常明显的启蒙思想

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But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

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