也许我对午餐、茶水间闲聊、关心他人、深入而有意义的谈话的期望是我上次在那种办公室环境中遗留下来的。

Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.

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把他们留给市场，他们仍然可以自由地通过贡献劳动力，追求有意义的生活，从而与其他人的生活接轨。

Left to the market, they remain free to pursue a meaningful life by making a productive contribution, however modest, to the lives of others.

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你们要试着从这个世界得到一些道理,以一种对我们有意义的方式，如果我们幸运的话，还能对其他人有意义。

You should try to make sense out of the world in a way that would matter to us, and if we are lucky, would matter to other people.

youdao

And the reason I was able to do that and keep with what my original intentions were was to have a career that was the fulfilling, in terms of helping people and being engaged in science, is all of a sudden I realized, as chemists, we can think about better ways to build molecules that are important for making medications.

我能够这么做,并且能不和我原来的打算冲突,是因为我的职业很有意义，能帮助他人，又和科学相关,于是突然我意思到，作为一个化学家,我们可以思考出更好的办法,制造出在制药方面十分有用的分子。

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