I've already told you the story about Achilles having the choice of living forever without fame or dying with fame, and he makes the choice for death and fame.

我已经跟你们说了阿喀琉斯的故事,他有两个选择,或是无名无望的活下去,或是战死沙场,但受万世颂扬,他选择了死和名望

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Another example. This captured my imagination-- when I was a kid, my dad told me about the invention of the chess game-- some of you know the story.

另一个例子，这个例子捕获了我的想象力-,在我小时，父亲给我讲象棋游戏的由来-,有些人可能知道这个故事。

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I'm going to tell about myself, but you know, you'll find the argument sort of, perhaps more persuasive if, as I tell the story, you imagine the story being told about you.

在故事中讲的是我自己,但你们会发现,如果你们相信故事说的是你们自己,这个论证就会更有说服力

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This brings us to the final-- the issue of expectations and how we judge people is a story that could be told about individuals but it's also a story that could be told about groups.

这让我们谈到最后一个问题-,关于期望的问题,我们如何评价他人,不仅对个人有影响,对群体也会有影响。

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Now as metonymy, the delays we have been talking about, -- the paratactic structure of the way in which the story is told-- all of those, and the elements of repetition, are forms that we recognize as metonymic, but there's something beyond that at the level of theme.

作为转喻，我们之前说过的延后，在这个故事中表现为那种并列的结构-,都是重复的元素，我们把它们看做是转喻的，但是还有些东西在这个主题之上。

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