The chance to walk again is what initially draws him to a distant, dangerous moon.

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When I thought about what I wanted in survival, it wasn't enough that there be somebody in the distant future that be me.

当我思考生存的意义时，仅仅是未来某一时刻,有一个我是不足够的。

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Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是为了将这些深奥抽象的著作形象化,还为了让我们通过哲学辨明,日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最关键的。

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One should do," he says, "what archers do when attempting to reach a distant target, namely, aim your bow high, knowing that the force of gravity " will bring the arrow down."

他说：，“一个人应该做的是，模仿伟人所为,当试图达致遥不可及的目标时，意即将目标设高，明了重力会将,射出的箭吸回地面“

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