her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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Vacillation." The poem was written following a series of poems called the "Crazy Jane" poems, written as a kind of summary of them, a kind of resolution of the debates that go on in them.

踌躇一诗写于系列诗,疯狂的珍妮之后，作为对这一系列诗的总结，作为对其中的争论的解决方式。

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The problem was, of course, Nat Turner's Insurrection; it had just occurred in October of 1831 and they held these debates in the wake of it.

问题是,在1831年爆发了,纳特特纳的起义,他们把这些议题推迟到起义之后

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- Now that's a slight lie-- or actually in these days of political debates, a slight misspeaking, a wonderful word-- -- it is technically correct. It is enough to allow us to write any program, but it's not enough to allow us to easily write any program.

现在还有点说谎的感觉,或者在这些强调政治辩论的日子中，可以说成是有些词不达意-,这是一个绝妙的形容词,在语义上是完全正确的，用这种语言我们可以编写任何程序,但是不能轻松地编写程序。

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Now, Western cultures, as I've said, are highly invested in an ethics of autonomy and so debates we have in our culture tend to be framed in terms of an ethics of autonomy.

我之前说过，西方文化，具有强烈的自治道德,所以我们文化中的争议,都是从自治道德的观点出发的。

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In the debates ranging for the last thirty years or so over the value of traditional pedagogy and over the value of canonical reading lists, Milton is always cited, invariably cited, as the canon's most stalwart representative of oppressive religious and social values.

过去30多年来，在传统教育学和权威必读书目,对价值的争辩中，米尔顿总是，无一例外的，被看做是英国文学经典中,宣扬压迫性的宗教社会价值的最坚定代表。

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Thomas R. Dew, a very important pro-slavery writer, who wrote a whole book in the wake of the state of Virginia's debates in 1831 and '32 over whether to re-write its Constitution.

托马斯·德夫,一个非常重要的亲奴主义作家,曾在弗吉尼亚州于1831和32年开展的,关于是否重写其宪法的辩论之后,撰写过一本书

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Much more on that 1857 panic, as they were called then, a little later in the course, because it's absolutely pertinent to what happened in the great political debates of the late 1850s.

更多的是1857年恐慌,正如他们所说的,稍后会讲到,因为这非常贴切,19世纪50年代晚期发生的著名政治争论

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