As I told the teaching fellows, I had a colleague in those days who looked at me enviously and said he wished he had the black leather concession at the door.

我跟学生讲，有个同事特别羡慕我,希望自己的门上也有那样的黑色皮革。

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General Motors at its height, when I was growing up in Flint, Michigan, in boom times, would've wished it could've said that.

即使是通用汽车鼎盛时期,那时我还是个孩子生活在密歇根的弗林特,也没能有如此辉煌的成绩

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Living in Florence, the center of the Renaissance at the height of the Renaissance, Machiavelli wished to do for politics what his contemporaries, like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, had done for art and sculpture.

住在佛罗伦萨，这个文艺复兴时期的核心,且是在文艺复兴的鼎盛时期，马奇亚维利想在政治上,达到像同辈，如达文西和米开朗基罗，于艺术与雕刻方面的成就。

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God, they wished they were without it.

他们多希望没有奴隶制啊

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We see his conflicting emotions both to see and not to see, a sense that he wished to observe and yet he is at, in some ways, at war with himself, knowing to gawk, to stare at this sight.

我们看到他的冲突情绪,在看与不看之间打架，一种他希望观察的感觉,但他某方面，也在和自己战斗，明白自己瞪着这景象时会瞠目结舌。

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