There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

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If you feel exposed without a text book, you really have to have a textbook, John actually I'm going to reuse that word, John, at least suggest it, on the course website.

如果你觉得没有教科书就缺乏安全感的话，那你真的需要一个了，其实我应该重新使用这个词儿，至少是建议，你能在课程网站上找到。

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But in this next passage, which is Numbers 11, Moses is the one who is impatient with the Israelites' constant complaints and lack of faith, and he's ready to throw in the towel.

但在下一篇《民数记》11中，摩西成为了那个对犹太人不停的抱怨，缺乏信仰,没有耐心的人，他准备认输。

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Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

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So I mean, people can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable but if they don't really believe in it, then they're not going to really work hard and they're not going to even if they're smart guy who doesn't have the relevant experience, they're not going to care enough to develop the relevant experience in order to succeed.

就比如说，一个人不仅聪明,而且也有拿来即用的技能,但是如果对于自己的事业没有认同感，他就不会,百分之百的付出,就算他是属于,缺乏经验但智力超群的那类人，他也不会有意识地,为了成功而积累自身经验。

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