When I do my best to imagine some kind of existence that would be desirable or attractive forever, it just doesn't work. It becomes a nightmare.

当我尽力想象一种,令人永远期望迷恋的存在时，根本想象不出，总是变成恶梦。

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Individual freedom may be at best a desirable byproduct of the Aristotelian mixed regime but individual freedom is not its defining or principle goal.

个人自由充其量,仅是附加于,亚里士多德式混合政体的产物,而非其所要定义,或首要的目标。

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We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

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Or are they desirable?

或是会被接受？

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