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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因此，我认为对于那些生活在不讲目标语言的国家的人来说，这确实是一个挑战。

So, I think that's really the challenge for people who live in a country where their target language isn't spoken.

youdao

每当我想起这有点幽默的人生哲理，它便提醒我不要把我的生活看得那么严肃。

Whenever I think of this humorous bit of wisdom, it reminds me to not take my life so seriously.

youdao

You know, a lot of people like to be in the city, but I grew up in rural environments,

你知道，很多人都想在城市中生活，但我是在村庄里长大的，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It seemed I had a whole host of memories going back to 1750 in England and that I was in San Francisco now only in another life and in another body.

似乎全部记忆都回到了1750年的英格兰,而现在在圣弗兰西斯科的我则是另一个人，在另一种生活里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When we think of the kinds of examples of material machines that we've got available to us in the fourteenth century, I try to imagine what would somebody in the fourteenth century think to himself or herself when he entertains the possibility that a plant might just be a machine?

当我们回想14世纪时期的,各种机器,我试着想象,一个生活在14世纪的人,他,或她,在面对一株植物可能,只不过是一台机器的观点时会怎么想

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