Life needs balance, and productivity gives us a sense of accomplishment and value that we can't get from laying on the beach for months on end.

生活需要平衡，高效给我们一种完成事情的成就感，那是我们不可能在沙滩上躺几个月能够获得的。

youdao

Yes, in a very real sense your life (our lives!) are totally meaningless and void of any value in the greatest scheme of things.

是的，在真正意义上，你的生活(我们的生活！)是完全无足轻重的，从长久来看毫无价值。

youdao

In refusing to run to catch trains, I have felt the true value of elegance and aesthetics in behavior, a sense of being in control of my time, my schedule, and my life.

从拒绝追赶列车中，我体会到“优雅”的真正价值和行为中的美学，一种控制我的时间、行程和生活的感觉。

youdao

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选