Self knowledge is like lost innocence, however unsettling you find it; it can never be un-thought or un-known.

自我认知就像逝去的童真，不管你有多不安;,你已经无法不去想或是充耳不闻了。

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I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

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Is the only reason that you as a doctor won't yank the organs out of the healthy patient that you think, well, if I use him in this way, in the long run more lives would be lost?

这就是唯一原因,让你作为医生,不会偷摘取体检病人的器官吗,因为你认为，如果你这样利用他，长远来看，会导致更多人丧命？

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If you're not taking notes in this lecture, you have to write down at least one sentence. You must write this down because this will be the most important thing I say all morning: Milton's Paradise Lost is the first narrative poem in English that didn't rhyme.

就算你们这堂课不记笔记，也一定要记下至少一句话，一定要把这记下来,这是我一早上说的最重要的一句话了：,弥尔顿的《失乐园》是,第一首不押韵的英语叙事诗。

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