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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  Well, that's not the way it is with the modern world
  这和现代世界的观点不同
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  and that's not the way it comes out of the enlightenment,
  和启蒙时期的思想成就不同
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  the individual is the ultimate.
  他们认为个人利益至上
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  The enlightenment, if you go back to its routes
  如果你回到十七世纪启蒙思想的根源
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  in the seventeenth century with the likes of Hobbes and Locke--
  霍布斯和洛克所处的时代
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  what is the ultimate place you go to?
  追问你最终追求的是什么
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  It is the rights of individuals.
  回答必然是个人权利
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  You may not stamp out the rights of individuals.
  你无法镇压个人的权利
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  They are inherent in everything.
  这些权利是与生俱来的
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  Either you believe, as our founding father said that
  你可当做 像我们的国父说的那样
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  we were endowed with them by our creator.
  我们的个人权利 由造物主赋予
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  They didn't say God because,
  他们没有说是上帝 因为