我和那些抛开生命中所有矛盾的人们在一起。

I was with people who had shed all the inconsequence of earlier life.

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我是一个矛盾的人。我善于制定计划，更善于打破计划。所以呢，我的计划都是不完美的。

I was a contradictory man. I am good at making plans, are better at breaking the programs. So, my plan is not perfect.

youdao

我并不是唯一一个感到矛盾的人：虽然大多数美国人都想知道自己的基因背后隐藏着什么信息，但只有不到100 000人最终购买了这项产品。

I'm not the only one who's ambivalent: while most Americans are curious to learn what's in their genes, fewer than 100, 000 have actually bought the scans available to them.

youdao

So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.

当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。

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And my guess is the result is yes, you could but you're not going to feel un-conflicted about it and it's because these two are conflicting each other at the same time.

我的观点是，你可以爱上两个以上的人，你可以这样做，但是你会内心很矛盾,因为这两者,一直思想一直不停地在做斗争。

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Each of us contains these two warring, you might say, elements within us, both self-assertion and fear of the consequence of self-assertion. The question is for Hobbes, ? how do we tame these passions?

我们每个人都有这两种，矛盾的元素，即对自负之结果的自负和恐惧,对霍布斯来说，这个问题就是，我们怎样控制情绪？

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