"But unlike a lot of more traditional education, where it is a lecture, everything that we do is experiential, so we put young people into situations where they can actually be engaged in an activity; for example, starting their own mini-student experience those same challenges that we as adults would have when we start a business.

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her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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It poses other kinds of difficulty, let's say; but in the case of fiction, in order to be engaged, in order to enter the hermeneutic circle properly, we need the element of surprise, as I say, as a way of distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction.

它的确带来了其它困难，我们可以这样说;,但是在读文学时，为了投入进去，为了合适地进入解释循环，我们需要“惊讶“这个元素，正如我所说，作为区分文学和非文学的一点。

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Maybe reading philosophy would be somethin that as long as you were doing it you couldn't die or, as perhaps some religious traditions might've taught, as long as you were engaged in prayer ? you couldn't die. Wouldn't that be nice?

也许看哲学书会是某件,只要你在做，你就不可能死的事，或者也许像某些宗教传统所说，只要你参与祷告,你就不可能死，那样岂不是很好？

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