We have all become, whether we choose to admit it or not, Hobbesians.

不管你信或是不信，我都得说我们已经成了霍布斯笔下的那种公民。

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And, uh, like you know, for all I know, I could graduate and become an accountant.

比如说，我可能毕业后成为一名会计。

什么事情都是可能的 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Why do people become firemen, policemen, soldiers, freedom fighters, all activities that cannot be explained in terms of self-interest alone?

不可能只用拿工资的理由，就能完全解释为什么总有人愿意做,消防员，警察，军人和争取自由的斗士？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That's why people are so excited about embryonic stem cells because in nature they become all the cells of the body.

这就是为什么胚胎干细胞如此让人激动,因为它的天然功能就是变成所有身体细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You remember that Milton had vowed to his friend Charles Diodati in the Sixth Elegy that he would become an epic poet some day, and that he was taking all of the necessary steps to transform himself into an epic poet.

弥尔顿曾在第六挽歌中向他的朋友查尔斯，迪奥达蒂宣布,他有一天将成为一名史诗诗人，他也在不断努力,把自己变为一名史诗诗人。

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Because people do all sorts of behaviors which become very, very hard to interpret if they don't really believe their bodies are going to die.

因为人们有各种行为,如果他们不相信自己的肉体会消亡,这些行为将非常难以诠释。

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I'm going to look sort of with some care at these passages - so all will become clear, but particularly in this: Sidney-- and I didn't exactly quote the passage in which Sidney does this - but I urged you to believe that he does-- Sidney actually ranks poetry somewhere between divinity and the other sciences.

我会重点讲这点,等我讲完你们就明白了-,我不读他的原句了,但我想让你们知道，西德尼的确-,将诗歌排在了,神学和其他科学之间。

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Peddlers who had these big, big leather bags that would go around Europe and sell things like pins and miraculous images of the Virgin Mary and the stories of saints and all this kind of stuff and Joan of Arc or Robin Hood, in the case of England, become part of the collective memory.

拿着大皮袋的小贩们走遍欧洲,到处贩卖例如胸针,圣母画像,圣徒故事,圣女贞德和罗宾汉之类的小册子,这成了英国大众记忆的一部分

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I think we all understand the importance of children growing up together and having the opportunity to work together to become friends, to learn the results of conflicts and to basically interact in a social environment.

我们都明白,孩子共同成长,有机会合作是很重要的,他们要成为朋友，要知道发生冲突的后果,要在社会环境里互动。

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They are relatively competent, they speak English and if the diagnosis can be made on line they'll do it, and all of these services are now been provided and so service sector has become a fast growth in India contributing to higher growth rates.

这个方面印度人力更有竞争力，因为他们会说英语,只要医生可以在线诊断,他们就能提供好该项服务,这些服务现在都有,因而促进了印度服务行业飞速发展,从而也使印度经济更快速增长。

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What happened to him, I mean why does he all of a sudden ? become so humble and acquiescent?

他怎么搞的，为何他突然间,变得如此谦卑和默默顺从？

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That makes sense if you think about this process of cell multiplication, that I have one cell it becomes 2 cells in a minute, it could become 4 cells in another minute, it could become 8 cells in another minute and that's all that this set of equations is representing.

如果你和细胞增殖的过程联系起来的话,这个是说的通的,我有一个细胞在一分钟里变成了两个细胞,那就可以再花一分钟变成四个细胞,再花一分钟就变成八个细胞,这就是这个方程所代表的意义

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It doesn't have every potential, it's a boy or a girl, it's not going to go back, but it has lots of potential in that eventually when it becomes an adult it could become a cellist, or a biologist, or an auto mechanic, or a biomedical engineer, all those potentials are still there.

但不是全部,比如性别已有定论,无法改变,但还是有很多潜能,当孩子长大,他可以成为大提琴家,生物学家,机械师或者生物医学工程师,他仍有所有的潜能

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First, the Treaty declared that the individual sovereign state would henceforth become the highest level of authority; you might say, putting an end once and for all " to the universalist claims of the Holy Roman Empire.

第一，条约宣称,各个主权国家,都因此而成为各自国家里最高的权力;,永远终结了,普遍意义上的“神圣罗马帝国。

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So not all of the B-cells that are stimulated become plasma cells or antibody secreting cells.

所以,并不是所有的B淋巴细胞,被刺激分化成为,浆细胞或是抗体分泌细胞

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We can avoid all of that if we become body theorists.

成为肉体理论家就能避免那些问题了。

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