If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.

如果这些法则有机械上,或者几何上的必须性的话，它们就不能被称作道德法则。

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Leda and the Swan" seems to say a knowledge of the body, of the necessity of embodiment. In the late Yeats, in the poems that I'll be discussing today, there's no knowledge apart from the body.

这诗里似乎说的是身体的知识，表现的必要性，我们要谈论的,叶芝的晚期诗讲的就是身体。

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And if money-makers in that one and there is neither order nor necessity in this life but calling this life sweet, free, and blessed, he follows it throughout.

如果换成是商人,没有规律及必然性的生活,而只是,惬意，自由与喜悦，他还彻底跟随这样的人生画面。

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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

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The question of censorship and the telling of lies is introduced, in other words, as a question of military necessity, controlling the guards or the auxiliaries of the city, its warrior class.

审查的问题,及说谎的导入，换句话说，就像军备的问题，控制守卫人员,或说是城市的后备，战士阶级。

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