Well, in some sense this is exactly what modernity might be seen to be doing to traditional English culture.

某种程度上这正是现代性,被认为的对传统英国文化所产生的影响。

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A man who is living in a polis not doing well, how can he be happy? There's just no way.

一个生活在城邦里的人没有做好本分,他怎么会幸福,这是不可能的事情

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And what that means, of course, is you won't do as well at the beginning as you're likely to be doing toward the end.

当然，这也就是说，你们刚开始时做的不会太好,我们期望你们在最后会更好一些。

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Last time, I invited you to think about life on the experience machine, where the scientists are busy stimulating your brain in such a way as to give you an exact replica, from the insides of what it would be like having identical experiences to the ones you would have if you were really doing-- well, whatever it is that's worth doing.

上节课，我要你们思考,体验机里的生活，科学家们用它刺激你的大脑,给你一份完美的体验复制品，从体验相同的经历,到体验在现实生活中-,值得做的事情。

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