Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

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Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.

这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》

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And what the Republic tries to do is to offer us strategies, maybe we might even call it a therapy, Thumos for dealing with thumos, for submitting it to the control of reason and helping us to achieve some level of balance, of self-control and moderation.

而《理想国》尝试做的是,提供我们策略，而我们甚至能称之为疗法，用以处理，让它接受理性的控制,并助我们达到某种程度的平衡，介于自控与节制之间。

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