It wants to live a life of a certain magnitude, but with a view to achieving the ultimate desired end, which is to return to an inorganic state on its own terms.

它们希望生命有意义，但是还是带这完成最终愿望的心态，那就是回到最初的无生命状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And with the ultimate goal of teaching it at a university level, hopefully at a school like Columbia

我最终的目标是在大学教书，很希望能在像哥伦比亚这样的大学，

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Is virtuous behavior repaid with some kind of ultimate good?

善行总有善报么？

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The enlightenment, if you go back to its routes in the seventeenth century with the likes of Hobbes and Locke-- what is the ultimate place you go to?

如果你回到十七世纪启蒙思想的根源,霍布斯和洛克所处的时代,追问你最终追求的是什么

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So the democratization of finance is, I think, the ultimate mission of--I find central to this course but it brings with it dangerous hazards and we have to think very carefully about how we do it.

因此,我认为金融民主化,是我们这门课的根本使命,但由此而来的金融危机,使我们深思该如何应对

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