Swan says his early mentors instilled in him a simple environmental ethic that has guided him through life: "That was that at the end of our expeditions, we would always leave wherever we went,clean and tidy, take away our garbage, take away everything, just leave our footsteps."

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He chooses Jacob, a liar and a cheat in his early life, over the elder Esau.

上帝选择了雅各布，他年轻时是个说谎者，骗子，而没选择哥哥以扫。

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In fact, he claims, he was so far from such debauchery that he had devoted his entire early life to the ideal of virginity.

他声称，事实上他离放荡还差远了,因为他年轻时完全沉浸于贞操理想中。

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He ended up at City University of New York, became a full professor at age thirty three, died in his early '50s, did not lead a good life but had extraordinary discoveries.

最后他去了纽约市立大学，在33岁时成为正教授，50来岁时去世，生活过得不是很好,但有很重大的发现。

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