It is, in fact, a very deliberate and self-conscious repudiation of that late romantic aesthetic that Yeats's early book, and even the cover of that early book, represents.

实际上，这是一种非常从容不迫有意识的,对早期叶芝的书里体现出的后浪漫审美的抛弃，甚至连早期那本书的封面，都体现出了这种倾向。

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Because they have to keep it interesting, so they put on all the goofballs.

因为那节目得有点儿趣味性，所以他们连傻瓜也要。

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American suburbs, many of you come from them-- Hillsborough, California; Darien, Connecticut; Grosse Pointe, Michigan; places like that. That's not what the suburbs are in Europe.

美国郊区,你们大部分都是从那来的,希尔斯伯勒,加州,达连,康涅狄格州,格罗斯波恩特,密歇根州,像这种地方,欧洲的郊区可不是这样

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The fact that our happiness is tied to others, the fact that we are tied to others in a web of empathy-- that's a wonderful thing about human nature.

我们的快乐与他人的相关连，我们通过同情网络和他人相关连-,那是人性的美妙之处。

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But wouldn't it be nice to just have a certain period of time every day when you didn't have to even have it be ? so much as a remote possibility?

但要是每天能有一段特定的时间,死亡对你来说,甚至连一个遥远的可能性都不是,那岂不是很好？

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If what we mean is the mental, but that the aspect, the behavioral aspect of the mental, where even a chess-playing computer probably has it, then that's not a very compelling argument.

如果我们说的是精神的某个方面,即精神的表现面,是一个甚至连象棋程序都可能拥有的方面,那这就不是一个令人信服的论点

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That's a great question and I don't know the answer to it.

那真是个伟大的问题,连我也不知道问题的答案。

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