It wants to live a life of a certain magnitude, but with a view to achieving the ultimate desired end, which is to return to an inorganic state on its own terms.

它们希望生命有意义，但是还是带这完成最终愿望的心态，那就是回到最初的无生命状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And indeed, as we shall see, well, the tragic view of life, which the Greeks invent and which characterizes their culture, is there right at the beginning in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

确实,我们可以看到,悲剧人生观,在伊利亚特和奥德赛的一开始就有所体现,这是希腊人首先提出的,体现了他们的文化性格

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We tend to underestimate the importance of Freudian thought in everyday life because he's transformed our world view to such an extent that it's difficult for us to remember if there's any other way to think about it.

我们常常低估了精神分析理论,在日常生活中的重要性,因为他改变了我们的世界观,让我们以一种自己难以想到的方式,来看待世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The one point of view takes the philosophic life, the examined life, to be the one most worth living; the other takes the political life, the life of the citizen engaged in the business of deliberating, legislating, making war and peace as the highest calling for a human being.

一个观点为采纳哲思生活，经反省的人生才值得活;,另一个观点为采纳政治生活，公民的生命并入,商议，立法事务，宣战与追求和平,成为最高的人性召唤。

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