You will find that, even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all, fight with yourself, for there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.

你会发现，即使你可以忽略,其他人对你及你的生活的态度，你还得和自己战斗，几乎是和自己抗争，这样你就会有种强烈的欲望，要扭曲事实来添油加醋地描述你的感觉。

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For example, if your son got in a fight with his sister and you're very concerned about him,

例如，如果你的儿子跟他的妹妹打了起来，你对他很是担心，

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You cannot imagine, it seems to me, in the world that Hesiod describes, Achilles or anybody else saying, "Well, you insulted me and so I'm not going to fight anymore for my polis."

对我来说,你无法想象,在赫西奥德描述的世界中,阿喀琉斯或其他人说,"好吧,你侮辱了我,因此我不会再为我的城邦作战"

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Because there, it's not known for dive bars with cheap beers and pin darts and, you know, people getting in a bar fight.

因为那里不是因有便宜的啤酒和针头飞镖的廉价酒吧和酒吧打架闹事而闻名。

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You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words, unless you can afford to pay for your equipment and that excludes a goodly number of citizens who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

换句话说,你不能加入步兵方阵,除非你自己能出钱买装备,这样有相当多的公民,会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗

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