But the really important thing we saw by 1992 was that people were not really engaged at all on this issue."

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And then a year and a couple of months later, by the year later we were engaged

一年零几个月后，我们订婚了，

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They were engaged in arbor culture; they had fruit trees that produced very well.

他们擅长园艺,他们栽种着大量果树并且产量丰富

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Well, crossword puzzles aren't a very deep subject, and we might wonder whether or not we would do better if we were engaged in something more mentally challenging than that.

填字游戏不算很深奥的东西，我们也不知道自己能否做得更好,如果我们去做,比填字游戏更富挑战性的事情。

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her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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The kids who engaged in the peace talks were ostracized by their own groups as treasonists.

参加和谈的男孩受到排挤,被自己的队员视为叛徒。

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The settlers were enclosing land and engaged in wars with the Native Americans.

殖民者在圈地，并挑起了与印第安人的战争。

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So the great political thinkers were typically engaged in the politics of their times and help in that way to provide us okay with models for how we might think about ours.

所以伟大的思想家,总会涉及他们当代的政治,并以此帮忙想出一些模式,让我们可以自省。

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And the reason I was able to do that and keep with what my original intentions were was to have a career that was the fulfilling, in terms of helping people and being engaged in science, is all of a sudden I realized, as chemists, we can think about better ways to build molecules that are important for making medications.

我能够这么做,并且能不和我原来的打算冲突,是因为我的职业很有意义，能帮助他人，又和科学相关,于是突然我意思到，作为一个化学家,我们可以思考出更好的办法,制造出在制药方面十分有用的分子。

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On the other hand, guys who were engaged in a fight of the kind we must imagine get very angry; these guys killed a buddy next to you.

另一方面,人们在这样的战争中作战,敌人杀死了身边的战友,我们可以想象他的愤怒

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So you couldn't die unless you were engaged in certain activities.

所以你不可能死,除非你参与了这些活动。

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Maybe reading philosophy would be somethin that as long as you were doing it you couldn't die or, as perhaps some religious traditions might've taught, as long as you were engaged in prayer ? you couldn't die. Wouldn't that be nice?

也许看哲学书会是某件,只要你在做，你就不可能死的事，或者也许像某些宗教传统所说，只要你参与祷告,你就不可能死，那样岂不是很好？

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You were not engaged in P-functioning.

没有实施人格功能。

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