So this is to say, for those of you who are joining us today for the first time, that's totally fine.
也就是说,对于你们中第一次加入我们的同学而言,是相当不错的。
Let's say that your brother who you are really close to is dating a girl that is not telling him the truth.
假设你有个关系非常亲密的哥哥,他正和一个女孩谈恋爱,但这女孩却并没有以诚相待。
Of course what I want then to say to you is not actually you're the one who is making the mistake.
当然我接着要跟你说的是,不是说你就是,犯错的那个人。
If you see a man who is not effeminate, you might ignore it or say maybe he's not really gay after all.
如果你看到不是娘娘腔的同性恋者,你可能会忽视他,或者认为他不是真的同性恋者。
Let's just say that you have a child who lives up here, say in this cul-de-sac, and is friends with a child who lives over here.
假设有你有一个孩子住在这儿,在这条死胡同里,他有个朋友住在这
He is the intellectual who enjoys bringing, you might say, the harsh and unremitting facts about human nature to light, who enjoys dispelling illusions and pretty beliefs.
他是一位学者,乐于将人性残酷、,不得宽恕的真实面,摊在阳光下来检视,他更乐于为人破解假想及天真的信念。
So how did you settle disputes when they fight and disagree, say, Executive Secretary Rumesfeld, who is a fellow Princetonian both went to Princeton, but he wouldn't be the easiest person to deal with.
在他们争论和出现分歧的时候,你是怎么解决的呢,比如说行政秘书拉姆斯菲尔德长吧,你们俩是普林斯顿的校友,但是他在工作中并非很好对付的人。
The kind of battle I've been describing to you, a nice flat field, two armies coming at each other, there's not much you can do in the way of trickery, and so you can take a high tone and say, anybody who fights any other way is a no good coward.
我向你们描述的这种战争,土地平坦开阔,两军对垒,没有多大机会使用奸计,所以你能大声地说,谁在战争中使奸就是胆小的懦夫
So, for example, if you're the kind of person, which is I have to say all I ever was, if you're the kind of person who can kick the ball fairly hard but not very accurately, then it actually might change these numbers.
比如你是这样的一种人,我也不得不承认我以前也是这种人,如果你是那种能够大力抽射,但是精准度不高的人,那这些数据对你就不太准了
If you asked somebody who was a judge, the judge would say, "Look. This is just the way things are. I'm not being biased at all."
如果你问评判,评判会说,“这是天生的,我没有歧视她们”
There is, in the first set of dialogues, a distinct hierarchy of characters, you might say, who we see later on express those distinctive features of the soul and the city.
在第一段对话中,可以明显地看出角色间的尊卑地位,你也可以说这些人,所表达出的独特性格,正是灵魂与城邦所具备。
You have- and another example of that that would be true, is let's say you have a child who lives in this sort of circular area here, who lives here and his friends with a child who lives here.
我们还有个现实案例,假如你有个小孩,居住在我画圈的这块区域,他住在这儿,而他的朋友们住在这儿
You might say that optimists are people who think that for everybody in every case, in every circumstance, the total is always positive.
乐观主义者认为,任何人在任何情况下,在任何环境里,等式结果永远是正数。
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