Right? I expect him to tell me the truth about the weather, right, and that's what I'm listening to him for.

对吧？，我希望他告诉我们天气的实况，我听他说话就是这个目的。

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And then after that, it was about a two-year wait, to tell you the truth.

在那之后，老实说，大概还要等上个两年。

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With this utterly original fable about the fragmentation of what we think of as religious truth, Milton goes out of his way -- this is remarkable.

用这个最原始的关于破碎,的宗教真理的寓言，弥尔顿又开始偏离自己的路线，这很值得注意。

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And that brings me to my final point about our Hobbesian civilization that conceals from us a very uncomfortable truth.

接下来我要讲的,是霍布斯现代文明观的最后一个观点,它将把一个残酷的现实呈现在我们面前。

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Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

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One of the things Gandhi said, that he talked about is from his wonderful autobiography, "My experiment with truth"-- " "Be the change you want to see in the world."

甘地说过一件事，出自他的精彩自传，《我的对于真理的实践经历》,“成为你想在世上见到的改变“

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And I tried to motivate this question by having you think about perhaps the possibility, if the soul view was the truth about personal identity, but imagine a case of complete irreversible amnesia, while nonetheless,it's still your soul continuing.

我试图通过让你们思考,灵魂理论有没有可能是个人认同感的真相，这个可能性，来推动这个问题，但是想象完全不可治愈的失忆，尽管你的灵魂仍然继续存活。

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Why should doubt about the veridical or truth-affirming possibilities of interpretation be so widespread in the twentieth century?

对确认为真的解读可能性的怀疑,为什么会在20世纪如此普遍？

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And the truth of whether a book should or should not be censored is something that's come about through the diligent effort of a group, rather than a single arbitrary judge like the state licenser.

但一本书是否真正被控制,是一堆人努力的结果，而不是政府出版管理处的人员专横的决定。

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We're going to get a deep insight if it's a necessary truth about death that everyone dies alone.

如果这是对死亡来说必不可少的真理,那我们能得到一些深刻理解。

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And suddenly there are dozens and dozens of competing expressions of religious truth, and so you have a new proliferation of new religions and new religious ideas that comes about as the immediate product of the freedom of the press.

突然有许多许多,与之相对抗的宗教真理，所以我们有了迅速增多的新的宗教,和新的宗教观念,随着出版自由而产生的产物。

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So Plato's certainly right about recycling as a fundamental truth.

所以柏拉图谈到,万物循环利用肯定是对的

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The trick--The question we're going to ask is, can we find some interpretation of that claim under which, first of all it ends up being true, secondly,it ends up being a necessary truth about death?

关键我们要问的问题是，我们能否能对这说法找到一个诠释，首先，这个诠释必须是真实的，第二，这是对死亡来说必要的真实？

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Just as Richards says, there's always something kind of archaic or atavistic about poetic thinking. It's not just that - it's not trying to tell the truth, as Sidney said-- "nothing lieth because it never affirmeth."

就像Richards说的，关于诗意的思考，总有些事情过时了,诗歌并非,拒绝陈述事实，正如Sidney说的-,“没有伪造的东西因为一切都不是真的“

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