Smith said he was able to read the strange writing in this book and put it into English.

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Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

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Usually we write in journals, but I allow them to their writing in this book.

通常做法是写日志，但是我让他们在这个本子上写作。

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Barthes, while writing this--he's writing what has perhaps in retrospect seemed to be his most important book, it's called S/Z.

巴特在创作这篇文章的时候,根据他的回忆这应该是他最重要的一本书，名叫《S\Z》

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The question that has guided me whether it's in writing the book, whether it's in creating this class, " whether it's first and foremost my personal life is what I call "the question of the question", which is "how can we help ourselves and others, ?" individuals, communities and society become happier?"

那个指引了我的问题，不论是写书，还是开设这门课程，还是被我所称的“问题的问题，就是“我们如何能帮助自己和他人，个人，群体和社会变得更幸福“

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