来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第4集 第4集》

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  But if you push it too far you will anger the gods
  但是如果过分追名逐利 便会触怒诸神
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  and something terrible will happen to you.
  灾难随即降临
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  So, it seems to me,that Western civilization,ever since,
  因此 在我看来 西方文化从那时至今
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  has been a composite of these two traditions.
  都是两种传统的复合物
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  But there is no way to put them together,
  但二者始终是无法相互融合的
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  and so Western civilization is an ambiguous society
  因此西方文明的社会是模糊不清的
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  with a war always ragging within the soul of Western civilization
  这两种西方的文明精髓总是此消彼长
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  and it's never perfectly clear
  而且永远不会明确地告诉你
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  which of the two approaches to life is the better one.
  哪一种对生活更好
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  I don't know whether any of you have ever thought about this,
  不知道你们是否考虑过这个问题
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  and anything like this way.
  或者以这种方式考虑问题
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  But if you contemplate your own way of thinking
  如果你以自己的思维方式沉思