It's the pursuit of fame, the noble pursuit of fame, that spurs us to scorn delights and to live laborious days.

是对名望的追求，这高尚的追求，迫使我们批判享乐，艰苦度日。

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Now if you expand that to sicence and to practice and whatever. It's your pursuit of life.

如果你将之延展到科学或者实践或者其他什么,你那是你自己的生活追求。

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There's always the sense that Dean evades him, and I think part of that sense of an evading object of desire is, again, the pursuit of sex in this novel; it's part of the pursuit of sex.

总有种感觉好像迪恩在躲着他，而且我想这种回避的部分要求，一样，在这小说里还是对性的追求。

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