我们渴望脱离实用价值的美，但这一心理渴望正在——也应当——减弱。

Our desire for beauty detached from utility is weakening, and it should be.

youdao

但他相信，具有实用价值的理论必须要能与实际的生活情况相结合。

But he believes that theory, to be of use, must keep its feet on the ground.

youdao

他们的工作中有些是真正的“蓝天研究”，即没有直接实用价值的基础科研。

Some of its work is truly "blue-sky" research.

youdao

In my view, we need especially to examine the older traditions of the West that came before the modern era, and to take seriously the possibility that useful wisdom can be found there, especially among the Greeks who began it all.

所以我认为,我们得研究学习古时的,西方文明体系,认真的对待其中,实用智慧的潜在价值,特别是古希腊人的经验

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