How can Milton know that he was really and truly called by God to be a great poet until he writes something - it's not a bad question - until he has something actually to show for his talent?

弥尔顿怎么知道他是不是真的被,上帝选中了去做一个伟大的诗人,除非他真的创作出点儿什么--这是一个不坏的问题,-直到他真有可以证明自己才能的作品？

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Now, if we make these distinctions, then again, remembering that the question we've been asking ourselves is, ?" "So why is death bad?"

作出这些区分之后，我们再讨论,我们对自己提出的问题，“为什么死亡是坏事“

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Question, is this amount of work a good amount of work or a bad amount of work?

问题是这个工作量,是不是最优的工作量呢

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Skinner, in his book Verbal Behavior, talks about the question of why do we do things like talk to ourselves, imitate sounds, create art, give bad news to an enemy, fantasize about pleasant situations?

斯金纳在其《言语行为》一书中，描述了我们展现各种行为的原因,如自言自语，声音模仿，创造艺术，向敌人散布坏消息，幻想美好情景等等？

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That's bad,right? Two different cases give us two different, diametrically opposed,answers on the very same question.

那就糟了，对吧？两个不同的案例，在同一个问题上给了我们截然不同的答案。

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So the harmony analogy is I think an attempt, and not a bad attempt, at gesturing towards the question how do physicalists think about the mind.

所以我认为和声的类比是个尝试，而且是不错的尝试,尝试解读物理学家如何思考精神。

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But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question ? and think about how good or bad for me ? is it that there's variability in death?

但是为了重点讨论,死亡的坏处，我要撇开道德问题不谈,转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏,如果死亡有可变性的话？

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