你们首先要阅读的是当代哲学家杰·罗森伯格所写的文章。

The very first reading that you're going to be doing is a couple of pages from Jay Rosenberg, a contemporary philosopher.

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我认为，这篇文章可能对你们所有人都很有意义。作为年轻人，你们可能想知道像真相这样的事情，你们的生活将走向何方，以及诸如此类的各种深刻的问题。

I think this essay has the potential to be quite meaningful for all of you as young people who probably wonder about things like truth and where your lives are going—all sorts of profound questions.

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现在，让我提醒你们在这篇文章中几乎令人难以置信的好消息。

Now, let me remind you of the almost unbelievable good news in this text.

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- You open Brooks and you find yourself really apart perhaps-- I don't know how well all of you are acquainted with the texts of Freud.

也许你们看布鲁克斯的作品时会觉得很头疼-,我不知道你们对弗洛伊德那几篇文章理解的如何了。

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Now the part of the essay just prior to this explains that he gave this little quiz that you see to some college students when he was giving a lecture.

在先前已经解释了这篇文章的一部分,他把你们所看到这个小测试在他的讲座上,给一些大学生做了。

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You remember they're wandering around the forest without her picking berries. The younger brother, - the second brother, is most concerned about his sister's safety -- so I want you to look at this passage.

你们记得他们在树林中游荡,没有拿他们采摘的果子，小哥哥，也就是二哥哥，是最关心他妹妹安全的-,所以我想让你们看这篇文章。

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