我认为，如果你选择生活在社会中，就不可能完全拥有自我，因为你不能无视周围的人的存在。

I think that you don't really have self possession if you choose to live in a society because you cannot just discount the people around you.

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美国人不能自由选择中国农民或印度王子的服装。

An American is not free to choose the costume of a Chinese peasant or that of a Hindu prince.

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送花的时候，我们不能随意选择，因为不同的花可能有不同的含义。

While sending flowers as gifts, we can't choose flowers arbitrarily, because different flowers may carry different meanings.

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The choice is a terrifying one of no friendship and "boughten friendship," which really isn't friendship at all.

这个选择是可怕的,是不要友谊还是根本不能算是友谊的“,“买来的友谊“

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All right so I probably should have chosen a shorter number 71 because now I can't figure it in here, but let's call it 71.

好的，我可能应该选择一个更短的数字,因为我不能指出它，我把它叫做。

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The second assumption we're going to make which is new is that we're going to assume that candidates cannot choose their position.

我们给出的第二个假设,这个新的假设是,候选人不能选择他们的位置

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