They emerge from this indifferent primal realm, This mixture of salt and sea waters, that is the source of all being and the source of ultimate power, But they age and they mature and they fight and they die.

他们都来自没有差别的原始王国，那盐和水的混合体就是一切生物的本源,也是极权的来源，但是他们会成长，成熟，战争，又死去。

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Or is it a book about ? metaphysics and the ultimate structure of being, as certainly many of the later books of the Republic suggest?

亦或是本关于,形上学及存在之极致架构的书，就如同往后许多,诠译《理想国》的书籍所论及的？

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You might think, given all this, and given the ultimate plot of On the Road, that being on the road is about pursuing that kind of desire, and that it is necessitated by leaving home: you have to leave home in order to pursue that desire.

你们可能觉得，所有这些，以及《在路上》的最终情节，关于在路上就是追寻这种渴望，这就使离家成为必需：,你必须得离开家才能追求那渴望。

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