All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

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I want to make you a richer person, a broader person, by instilling you with an unending deep and abiding understanding of classical music, so that's part of this, and not just here for Yale but for your life after Yale.

我希望你们成为更有内涵的人,心胸更加宽广的人,通过循循善诱,让你们体会到古典音乐的博大精深,这是一点,并不只在耶鲁大学,还有你以后的人生道路

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So, for example suppose now, just to make life a little bit more interesting, suppose that the voters were actually two rows and just allow me the suspension of disbelief that these rows have the same number of people in them, I know they don't really.

例如,假设现在,为了更有趣点,假设选民是两排人,且允许我认为,这两排人数相同,我知道他们实际上是不同的

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