如果不是自己，那么他有泡影。

If not himself, then he has naught.

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如果不是自己的房子，则海绵是厨房中细菌最多的物品。

Sponges are notorious for being the germiest item in your kitchen, if not your house.

youdao

试着问问自己，如果你的目标是帮助别人而不是提高效率，你会怎么做。

Try asking yourself what you'd do if your goal were to be helpful rather than efficient.

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It's absolutely constitutive of the ideal of freedom, of our freedom; because if we don't try everything, if we don't give ourselves an opportunity to decide for ourselves, then, of course, someone will invariably be making those decisions for us.

它也构成了自由的理念，我们的自由;,因为如果我们不是尝试过所有东西，如果我们不给自己做决定的机会，当然，总是有人会帮我们做决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If only you'd known you were only going to have 20 more years instead of 50 more years, you would've picked a different kind of life for yourself.

如果你知道你只剩下,20年而不是50年，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选