我从同伴降格为他们人生中的一个驿站。

I downgraded from the companion in their lives as a Inn.

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人为社会提供手段价值，但人自身并不因此降格为手段。

Human provides the value of means for the society, but will not be degraded as any mean creature.

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与之相适应，人被抽象为原子式孤立个人，世界降格为抽象物质世界。

Accordingly, human beings become lonely individuals like atoms and the world is degraded into abstract material world.

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Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

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