要生活，你首先必须存在。

To live, you have to exist at first.

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这就是为什么我要生活在穷乡僻壤。

That's why I'm going to live in the boonies.

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就意味着要生活在一个城邦之中。

meant to live in a polis.

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So that means that we assume that it's better to have limbs and functioning limbs than not to have them.

这意味着，我们默认，有正常的四肢的生活,要比没有四肢的生活好过。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.

他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗,写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Hence, some of the characters in books through whom you had glimpsed life's possibilities were fellow Americans of yours.

所以你要借助,书中的东西和角色,来表达生活的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选