I would not be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.

我宁愿是人们中最渺小的一个，心中有梦以及圆梦的渴望，也不愿成为最伟大的一个，没有梦，没有渴望。

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In fact, homework is driven by employers' desires to minimize fixed costs: homeworkers receive no benefits and are paid less than regular employees.

事实上，做家庭作业的动机是雇主希望将固定成本降到最低：在家工作的人没有福利，工资也比正式员工低。

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So it's easy to see why we might be tempted to say no mere machine could think or reason or have beliefs or desires.

所以很容易明白,为什么机器无法做到,我们刚才讨论的那些特质

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But what reason is there for saying it has no beliefs or desires?

但我们这么说的理由何在

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No traces of desires and memories and intentions and beliefs to eventually be recovered if only we have the right surgery,or procedure,or psychotherapy, or what have you.It's gone.

没有一丝的欲望，记忆，意愿和信念能被追回,无论什么样的手术，程序或者精神疗法，都无可挽回。

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Of course lost on the author is the simple truth that a strict policy of no bailouts would achieve that which he desires in terms of smaller banks.

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Make no mistake: Steve Jobs had no intention of allowing consumers to second-guess their iPad 2 desires.

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There is absolutely no one outside the bankruptcy courts (or the Greens, talking about human labour) that desires to or does use any more inputs than they can possibly get away with.

FORBES: Sad Stupidity at the European Commission