来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第3集 第3集》

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  in spite of modern medicine.
  我们仍没能摆脱这些问题
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  We live, still, I think in what might be called the Age of the Enlightenment.
  在今天 我认为我们依然生活在启蒙时代
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  That is the dominant sort of paradigm
  这可以说是有关生命的一种主导范式
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  of what life is all about, at least in the Western world
  至少对于西方世界
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  and a good deal more of it where the West has had an influence.
  以及受西方影响的其他国家是如此
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  At the core of it is a belief in progress,
  其核心就是对于进步的信仰
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  something that was essentially not present among the Greeks.
  实质上说这在希腊文化中是不存在的
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  Progress in the eyes of the philosophers of the eighteenth century,
  进步在十八世纪的哲学家眼中
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  though they would have been very angry to hear me say this,
  尽管他们也许会对我的说法很不满
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  was something like the equivalent of the Christian hope for immortality.
  与基督教对永生的信仰类似
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  The hope of the Voltaires of this world was
  伏尔泰希望这个世界
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  that they could make the world better constantly by their efforts,
  可以通过人们的不断努力而变得更美好