These implicitly make a claim to the generality--at the national scale, or in the racial sense-- the representativeness of this life.

而不是一个特定的人,这暗含了一种普遍性，在民族范围内或者在种族意义上来看-,来表现这种生活。

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Very often in these creations stories there is some sense of some realm from which life begins to emerge usually beginning with gods.

通常在这些创作的故事里，都会说到,神是人类的最先。

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Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

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The aim in this context, in this sense--the aim of all life is death.

在这种语境下，所有生命的目的就是死亡。

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The sense of powerlessness, the most profound sense of powerlessness, suggested already by the first episode where his mother almost takes back the life she gave him, is rooted in the family.

无能为力之感，极度的无能为力之感，在他母亲几乎,毁了他时就有过，这在他的家庭中深深地扎根。

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His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

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Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

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If impurity is associated with death, it makes sense that its antithesis, holiness, would be associated with life.

如果不洁和死亡有关，那么它的对立面，神圣，将会和存活联系在一起。

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And as I mentioned earlier then, death is so horrible and life is so wonderful that it could never make sense to throw it away.

当我更早的提及，死亡是可怕的而生活是美好的时,却因为不理解而忽视了。

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You have to choose. Well, critics took it fairly straightforwardly as the account of a life and in that sense, taking it that way, some of them were a little disappointed with what they held in their hands.

你必须做出取舍,批评家十分直截了当地，把它看成是生活的流水帐,因此有些人会对他们手中的书稍有失望。

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.. So that death-- they're optimists in this strange sense, if they think life would've been good, which means of course that that we die is bad for us.

所以死亡-,在这种奇怪意义上他们是乐观主义者，如果他们认为活着本来会很美好，那意味着死亡是件坏事。

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At no other point in the Republic, I think, do we see so clearly the tension between philosophical reflectiveness. on the one hand, in the sense of camaraderie, mutuality and esprit de corps necessary for political life on the other.

理想国》书中再也没有其它情节，能将这般清楚地将张力,展现在哲思深虑，化作同伴忠诚、相互关系及团队精神之间,且是天秤另一端之,政治生活所必备。

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This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.

这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There seems to be something to that and yet Hobbes certainly regards life as a precious good, perhaps the most precious good of all, and he writes with a lively sense of how fragile and endangered life is.

看起来有点关系,霍布斯肯定珍视生命，可能把它当作最珍贵的东西，他用一种活泼感写出,人生的脆弱和危险。

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But on the other hand these advances have also come at a cost. And in this story there's also a sense of longing for the freedom of life in the wild--the innocent, simple, uncomplicated life lived day to day without plans, without toil, in harmony with nature Edenic a somewhat Edenic existence.

但是，换个角度来看，人类付出了代价,才得到这些优点，在这部史诗中，同样存在着,对一种纯真，简单，纯粹生活的向往,每天生活中没有计划，辛劳，与自然和平相处,就像以前的。

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