在上一代以前，人们认为这么小的新生儿是没法存活的。

A generation ago, it was thought that babies born this small could not survive.

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在上一代，我们失去了与土地的联系，而现在我们又失去了与我们赖以生存的机器的联系。

In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on.

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密码在上一代确实很少有人知道。

A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.

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If you read Walt Whitman, you will see much of the same ethos So, Ginsberg is not the first to do this in the American tradition, for sure, but it's a very important part of what the Beats revive.

如果你读过沃尔特惠特曼，你会发现类似的思潮,所以金斯堡肯定不是第一个在美国传统上这么做的，但它是使垮掉的一代复兴的重要部分。

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So every generation of Israel is to view itself as standing at the sacred mountain to conclude a covenant with God, and that decisive moment has to be made ever-present. That's a process that's facilitated by the obligation to study, to study the laws, to recite them daily, to teach them to your children: these are instructions that are contained in Deuteronomy.

那么每一代以色列人都将自己看做站在圣山上,与上帝立约的人，于是那个决定性的时刻,被变为了恒久的场景这是通过学习，学习律法,而达成的过程，每天背诵它们，把它们交给你的孩子们：这是申命记中,包含的指示。

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