So again, the ethical message here is that humans are in control of their destiny and the action of every individual affects and influences the fate of society.

因此这里的道德上的启示就是,人类主宰着自己的命运,每个个体所作的行为,都会影响整个社会的命运。

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so it's all about, it's sort of about the struggles and it's about faith and it's about destiny, so

所以，它全部是关于挣扎、信仰和宿命的。所以

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To ride, to hunt, to smoke like a Turk in the sunshine, there's the destiny of the white man.

骑马,打猎,在日光下豪迈地吸烟,他们认为这些才是白人应该干的

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It's your own decision to eat Okay. The man is in charge of his dietary destiny.

吃什么该由你自己做主,很好,男人应该掌控自己的饮食命运

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The person who best captures the unconstrained view, Benjamin Constant, French philosopher and politician, " "It is for self-perfectioning that destiny calls us."

最好地阐述了本性受约束观点的人，法国哲学家政治家Benjamin，Constant说，“命运召唤我们进行自我完善“

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His heart exulting, he said to his father: "Creator of the gods, destiny of the great gods, If I indeed, as your avenger, Am to vanquish Tiamat and save your lives, Set up the Assembly, proclaim supreme my destiny!

他内心暗喜，对他父亲说：,众神之父，这就是伟大神灵们的命数，如果我真的是你的复仇者，我就要打败Tiamat，拯救你的性命，我要组织集会，宣布我至高无上的权威！

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We usually only talk about Manifest Destiny when we're talking about the westward movement beyond the Mississippi.

当我们谈到跨越密西西比河的西进运动时,我们一般只认为这是命运天定

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And deep at the root of Manifest Destiny, of course and there's book after book written on this is a deep and abiding American white supremacy.

很明显,这都源于命运天定,关于这点有很多著书证明,命运天定是根植于美国的白人至上主义

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But Manifest Destiny was in some ways the fuel of the American imagination.

但是命运天定在某种程度上,丰富了美国人的想象力

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I leave it to my expert colleagues in History of the American West to decide exactly who came up with the term Manifest Destiny, who actually first used it.

我的同事是美国西部史专家,他也许能够,阐述清楚命运天定这个术语是怎么出现的,以及到底是谁第一个用它

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And Manifest Destiny was the engine of capitalism, make no mistake.

而且,命运天定思想,是资本主义的发动机,这点无容置疑

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But Manifest Destiny was a very old American idea.

但命运天定是个非常古老的美国观念

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A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

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It was the destiny of a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, United States to take control and improve this great land it had been given.

它认为由白种人,盎格鲁撒克逊人,清教徒们,注定要在这块上天赐给他们的土地上,经营管理,建立国家

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