The first is this, that emotions are basically mechanisms that set goals and priorities and we're going to talk a lot about in this class and the next class about universals.

首先，情感是基本机制,设定目标及事务优先级,我们将谈论很多关于宇宙的话题,在这堂课和下堂课。

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Emotions set goals and establish priorities.

情感可设定目标并区分事务优先级。

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But faced with the question what should he do, what did he want to do with his remaining couple of years, what he decided he wanted to do -- was finish his Yale degree-- thought he'd set himself the goal of graduating college before he died.

但面对着他该做什么这个问题，在他剩余的几年生命里他想要做的事，他所决定的他想要做的事,是完成他的耶鲁学位-,认为他想给自己设定在死之前,从大学毕业的目标。

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You set one goal , t worry about the repercussions.

只要你设定了目标，根本不用考虑后果，and，you，don’

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He lost the ability to set goals.

他失去了设定目标的能力。

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He couldn't set his goals.

他不能设定目标。

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