On the contrary, he thought that work was the only lasting measure of a man.

相反，他认为工作是对一个人的唯一长久的衡量标准。

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Since man has come to measure his handiwork in gold, any increase in the amount of gold available, it is argued, will make his goods more valuable in terms of gold.

由于人类采用黄金来衡量自己的劳动成果，因此有人认为，如果可用黄金的数量增加，产品的价值也会相应上涨。

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So how do you measure the worth of a man, in wealth or strength or size, in how much he gained or how much he gave?

该怎样衡量一个人的价值，以财富、力量或大小？以获得或付出的多少？

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According to this view, man is not merely the measure of all things as the Greek Sophist Protagoras had radically proclaimed in the fifth century.

根据这种观点,人不仅仅是衡量一切事物的标准,这是古希腊诡辩学家普罗塔哥拉,在公元五世纪提出的

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But there's also a sort of sense of who he is by either his service in the Senate or even how he's been on television and just sort of who the man is or the measure of the man, whether it's his strength he projects or competence or whatever it happens to be.

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"If the measure of man's life is what he achieved, Robin achieved so much it's immeasurable, " continued Mr Graham.

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For better or for worse, modernity is now the measure of man.

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