What happens when we experience negative emotions is that our consciousness, our thinking narrows and constricts.

体验消极情绪时,我们的意识，我们的思维变得狭窄，收紧。

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But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

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Consciousness, if what we mean by consciousness is this qualitative aspect of our mental life, consciousness remains a pretty big mystery.

如果我们所说的意识,就是指我们心理活动定性的方面,那么意识还是一个很大的谜团

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And indeed, as it happens, in our department this very semester there is such a class devoted, all semester, to the topic of consciousness.

当然,这也的确是如此,我们系在这一学期,就有这么一个班,花了整整一个学期,来讨论意识问题

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