One sort of opens up the beginning of life here and the other closes it down through a referencing of death.

前者讲的是生命的开始,后者通过诠释死亡,讲述了生命的终结

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Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.

甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为，那种游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。

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I think that just it's a story that about his family before he left and sort of how he had a very happy, joyful life with his family.

我认为这个故事记录了,他离开日本前得家庭,以及他和家人的，快乐生活。

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But even some of them who'd learned language and who managed to get some sort of independent life, nevertheless will suffer from a severe social impairment.

但即便有些孤独症儿童掌握了语言,并且能够过上某种独立的生活,但却依然会受到严重社会障碍的困扰

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From its very beginnings philosophy and the city philosophy and political life have stood in a sort of tension with one another.

从一开始，哲学与城邦,哲学与政治生活，彼此之间,即处于一种紧张的关系。

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So maybe a better way to talk about it would just be: Life's a biological process; we're all familiar with that process, sort of, in its middle stretches.

也许对此更好的表述方式是,生命是一个生物学过程,我们对这个过程都很熟悉,在它的中期

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Were you and the president and everybody else in the White House worked as hard as you could, but things just sort of run away, took on a life of its own.

你们在白宫,尽心尽力地工作,但形势却还是会失控吗，就像是自己有想法似的。

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That is the dominant sort of paradigm of what life is all about, at least in the Western world and a good deal more of it where the West has had an influence.

这可以说是有关生命的一种主导范式,至少对于西方世界,以及受西方影响的其他国家是如此

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He's sort of an innocent primitive, he appears unclothed he lives a free, peaceful life in harmony with the animals, with nature and the beasts, he races across the steppes with the gazelles.

他是一个未开化的野人，出现时身无寸缕,生活随性，和动物与自然和平相处,有时候甚至和羚羊赛跑，穿过草原。

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His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

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I try to lead a normal life." It's sort of funny.

我只想过正常的生活”，这有点好笑。

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- And it's worth--; it's sort of a useful test for asking yourself -- what are the things you must value in life-- to ask, what would you choose to do if you knew you had five years, ten years, ? what have you?

而这值得;,这算是一种很有用的测试,用来问自己什么是你在生命中必须珍惜的事-,问你会怎么选择,如果你知道自己还有5年，10年，之类的时间？

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