We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight.
我们生活在一个我称之为“外向理想型”的价值体系中——一个无处不在的信念,即理想的自我是善于交际的,在聚光灯下感到舒适的。
When you feel stressed, or you want to become better, you may read some books for advice. We call those self-help books.
当你感到焦虑时,或者你想变得更好时,你可以阅读一些书籍寻找建议。我们称这些为励志书。
Unlike a human driver, a self-driving car won't be influenced by a phone call, the radio or something outside the window.
自动驾驶汽车不同于人类司机,前者不会受电话、广播或窗外东西的影响。
One is enhancement of the self but the other is what you can call "oversimplification of the other."
一个是对自我的放大,另一个可以称之为“对他们的过于简化”
Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.
这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》
Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.
但传统中的其它声音,像柏拉图,马奇亚维利,鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。
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