The crucial point about the syllabus is that it indicates what reading you need to have done for any given week.

教学大纲的关键点,是指出了什么样的读物,你需要在给出的时间内完成。

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The crucial point is that it takes more to have the best kind of life than just getting the insides right.

然而关键的一点是,要得到最美好的生活,不仅要获得正确的内在感知。

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Here it is not just the venerability of slavery, how old it is, but it's the idea that it has been crucial to the development of all great civilizations.

不仅仅讨论奴隶制的庄严性与历史由来,更是它曾经对人类文明的发展,起过至关重要的作用

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It just reinforces the point that I was trying to make a few moments ago that the crucial question is not survival per se.

这将强化我刚才试图阐明的一点,就是关键问题不是存在本身。

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But the crucial point for this view is that the proper metaphysical understanding of the mind is to think of it in nonphysical terms, nonmaterial terms.

但是这个观点的关键之处在于,从哲学角度对心灵的恰当理解,必须是在非物理的条件下去思考的,非物质的条件

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Imagine--this didn't, of course, actually happen, but imagine--the crucial point here is simply that we can imagine this story happening, not even that we think it's empirically possible, just it's conceivable, it's an imaginable story.

想象,当然,实际上并没发生,最关键的地方就是想象,故事因此而产生,别去想实际上是否可能发生,只需要一点想象,这是个虚构的故事

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It's important... I think this is the crucial point... that when we say a person is just a body, we don't understand that to mean... the physicalist doesn't mean that as-- a person is just any old body.

有个重要的一点...,我觉得这是最关键的一点,就是当我们说人只是个肉体时,我们不知道这意味着...,物理主义的意思不是...,人只是随随便便的某种肉体

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