Couldn't that be a kind of existence that would be forever enjoyable and yet it wouldn't be a rat-like existence?

那样的存在难道不是让人永远享受的,而且并非老鼠般的存在？

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Similarly, though, anybody who says, you should never think about the facts of mortality and the nature of death-- I think that's misguided as well.

但是同样地，任何人说，你应该永远不要想那些人必有一死,和死亡的事实-,我认为那也是有误导的。

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Whatever form the best regime takes however it will always favor a certain kind of human being with a certain set of character traits.

然而，无论最优的政体是采取那种型式,它都将会永远偏袒某一群人,且会有一些特定的性格特征。

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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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They believed the world was made up of a struggle between human autonomy, on the one hand, and human dependency on the other, and you should never give up on that dependency.

他们相信这个世界是由两部分组成,一部分是人自身的自律,而另一部分则是人类与人之间的相互依赖,你永远不应该放弃那种依赖

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You know, most of these people are never going to be born, of course But we're talking about possible people ? How many possible people are there?

你知道，这些人中的大部分,永远都不会出生，当然,但我们在讨论可能的人,有多少可能的人？

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But in their worldview, the pro-slavery worldview, ideas like freedom and liberty were simply never absolutes, and many of them will directly reverse Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and simply say, "Nobody is born equal."

但是在他们的世界观中,亲奴主义者的世界观中,自由和解放的理想永远不是绝对的,他们中许多人,直接颠覆了托马斯杰斐逊的独立宣言,他们说,没有人是生来平等的

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It's perfectly fine, but they envy us for our finite lifespans, because what we've got and they don't have is something that's for each individual rare-- something that's not lasting, something that's precious in that way.

不朽很好，但他们羡慕我们的有限寿命，因为我们有而他们没有的是,对每个人来说稀有的东西-,不会永远持久的东西，从那个层面讲珍贵的东西。

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So, the modern state, as we know it and still have it, in many ways grew out of the Hobbesian desire for security and the fear of death that can only be achieved at the expense of the desire for honor and glory.

所以我们知道的现代国家的建立,正如霍布斯所论,是人们对安全的渴求而导致的,只要一个人仍对荣誉有着强烈的渴求,他就永远不会对死亡产生恐惧。

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