Aristotle tells us he is slow to act unless something of great importance is at stake.

亚里士多德告诉我们,此类人的行动缓慢。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If we had perfect financial markets-- and this is intuitive-- and I don't know how obvious this is, it's obvious to me, but it's an intuitive point of great importance-- nobody would suffer alone.

如果我们有完善的金融市场-,这就很直观-,我不知道这有多直观，至少我觉得显而易见，这是一个很重要的观点-,也就是，没有人会独自承担风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The concept of individual freedom has had no importance in these great majorities of cultures in human history.

在人类历史的大多数文化中,个人自由这个理念显得无足轻重

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I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

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