For years, greens said adaptation—coping with climate change, rather than stopping it—was a bit like putting out a fire on the Titanic: desirable, no doubt, but the main thing was to change course.

多年来，绿色意识人士曾声称，适应----应对气候变化，而不是改变它---有点像扑灭泰坦尼克号上的火：毫无疑问，人人都想把火灭了，但关键还是要改变航线。

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That may be an overstatement - but if being good at reading or math or music permits a greater degree of engagement and expressiveness, that would seem to be a very desirable thing.

这也许看起来言过其实—但如果阅读、数学和音乐好而让人更加投入或者能更好地表现自己，恐怕也是十分令人向往的。

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It is this sort of thing which makes the love of power such a dangerous motive, But it has other sides which are more desirable.

就是这类事情使权力欲变成了一个危险的动机。权力欲也有它符合需要的方面。

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And also if you have a surplus, and that's a desirable thing to do, you can sell it.

同时如果你还有剩余,这是很理想的情况,你可以卖掉它们

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We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

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This puts the Administration in a further logical bind, as the policy is clearly grounded in the notion that monetary incentives work: make a desirable thing free, and people will demand more of it.

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Another thing that drives up prices is closing a desirable mine.

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