The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy;

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The church bells ring very,very slowly,all over the place, because there is--the heir to the French throne is dead.

在各地,教堂的钟声非常缓慢地响起,因为王位的继承人去世

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The lists of reasons to kill himself were "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," "a sea of troubles," and "the heartache in the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to."

一张是要自杀的原因,“命运的种种捉弄和折磨”,“无穷尽的烦恼“,”血肉之躯必定要承受无数的,锥心之痛“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, I want to turn now to the way in which this way of thinking had an impact on the future, and of course I'm speaking about the future of Western civilization which was the heir to this tradition.

所以,我现在想说的是,这样的思考方式对之后的历史有着重大影响,当然,我所说的之后的历史,是对西方文明而言的,因为西方文明继承了这个传统

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