Could Milton actually have believed that poetic success was in some way contingent on what it is that you do, or what it is you don't do, with your body?

他真的信,诗的成功是某种程度上取决于你对你的身体，做了什么或没做什么吗？

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My particular restaurant, we have a fair contingent of business lunch people,

就我们餐厅而言，一般中午提供商业套餐，

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Maybe identity, as philosophers like to put it, maybe identity is contingent.

也许同一性,就像哲学家喜欢说的,也许同一性是偶然的

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One of the sentences that I'll repeat throughout the class is that happiness is much more contingent on our state of mind than our status or the state of our bank account.

有一句话我会在课程中经常引用,快乐由我们的精神状态而定，而不是社会地位或银行存款。

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Rather, they emerge from contingent aspects of our biological nature.

相反，他们在我们的生物特性中,偶然呈现。

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Identity is not necessary, but contingent, as the philosophers put it."

同一性不是必然的,而是偶然的,就像哲学家们常说的

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The notion of contingent identity is very puzzling.

偶然同一性是很令人迷惑的

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Is it that identity is contingent?

同一性是偶然的吗

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