我之所以说这是异想天开，不是因为从来没有人表现的很有责任，而是因为如果不是一个人渴望表现的有责任心，则责任一词对他毫无意义。

I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever ACTS from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful.

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然而，他说结束这毫无意义的攻击不是他的工作。

He said, however, that it was not his job to end the nonsensical attacks.

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他说，有几百个文本信息，一长串对他来说毫无意义的电话号码数字。

He says there were hundreds of texts, a long list of Numbers that meant nothing to him.

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I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

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