Shouldn't individuals be free ? to choose for themselves their own plans of life ? wherever it may take them?

难道不应让个人自由选择,他们自己的人生计划吗,无论结果会如何？

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Milton acknowledges that the course he's chosen for himself may not be a natural one: Nature herself pushes a young man to begin a family and to seek credible employment .

弥尔顿知道他选择了一条,不那么正常的人生道路：,天性使得一个年轻人去结婚,去找一份可靠的工作。

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Plato seems to believe that each of us must choose somehow, must choose between one or the other of these two contenders for the most serious and worthwhile way of life.

柏拉图似乎相信,我们每个人都应选择，必需在这两种竞争概念中,做出选择,以求得严谨及值得过的人生。

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