It's possible that in merely reading and in merely amassing more and more knowledge, Milton's doing little more than the unprofitable servant in Matthew 25.

弥尔顿不可能,仅仅读书和积累知识，他所做的就像,马修25中的那个无益的仆人所做的一样。

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In the first place, it's important that we avoid, I think, two equally unhelpful ways of responding to this.

首先很重要的是，我们要避免，我认为的两种同样无益的解析方式。

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the parable of the unprofitable servant, the parable of the talents.

无益的仆人的寓言，才能的寓言。

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And so, maybe it's just a matter of each person having his or her own principles and there's nothing more to be said about it, no way of reasoning.

也许这本就是智者见智，仁者见仁的问题,多说无益，也无从论证。

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But the message isn't that optimistic sort of that life is short, enjoy it. It's more that the past is no good to us and we can't rekindle the past.

但是其所传达的信息并不是乐观的，不是那种,生命短暂，尽情享受的想法，此外,过去于我们无益，我们也无法使昔日之火复燃。

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I think for the moment it should be plain to you that this is a good way of understanding what the difference between a useful preconception and a useless preconception brought to bear on an interpretative act might consist in.

我想大家现在都能够,从这个例子中明白,解读中有益先见,和无益先见,之间的区别了。

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It'll do nothing for your grade.

甚至无益于你的成绩。

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First of all, most people believe that their cholesterol level in their body is determined by how much cholesterol they actually consume, so foods high in cholesterol would be bad in that sense and foods low in cholesterol would be good.

首先,大多数人以为体内的胆固醇含量,取决于胆固醇的实际摄入量,由此看来高胆固醇的食物确实对身体无益,而低胆固醇食物则是有益的

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It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

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