So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.

当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。

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Your soul is in deep danger if you indeed continue to lead the life that you have mainly been leading up to now, and those two things are in conflict.

如果你继续坚持你一贯的意愿,想要主导你自己的生活的话,你的灵魂将陷入险境,这两种意识总是起冲突

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