每种势利感都要求其信徒作出不懈的努力，一个接一个的牺牲。

Every snobbery demands of its, devotees unceasing efforts, a succession of sacrifices.

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他是一个老练的战士，愿意面对最极端的危险；他具有牺牲精神，愿意牺牲一切来保护他的国王和国家。

He's a skilled fighter, willing to face the most extreme dangers; sacrificial, willing to sacrifice anything and everything to protect his king and country.

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然后我们做了一个决定，我们中的一个人必须牺牲，以拯救其他人和他自己。

Then we made a decision that one of us must die, to save the others and himself.

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Will the best regime be a small closed society ? that through generations has made a supreme sacrifice towards self-perfection? Think of that.

最优的政体会是一个小型封闭的社会吗,经过多代之后，已壮烈地牺牲于自我完善之中,想想这个问题。

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They also had a creation story. They had a flood story. They did animal sacrifices. They observed purity taboos. Israelite religion was another Ancient Near Eastern religion and they differed from their neighbors only over the number of gods they worshiped: one or many.

他们都有原创的神话，他们都有一个关于洪水的神话,都有动物牺牲，他们都尊崇高洁的竹子,以色列宗教是另一种古近东宗教，它们和别的宗教,唯一不同之处就在于崇拜的神的数量：一个还是多个。

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Or Roosevelt, after World War Two, talking about our humility as a nation in the face of the sacrifice of our soldiers, or Lincoln, or Washington, These are people who understood that they were small parts of something much larger.

第二次世界大战之后，罗斯福总统，也讲过一个国家的谦逊,面对战士的牺牲，无论是林肯还是华盛顿，这些人都很请楚,他们都只是很渺小的一部分。

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