But Danny, the whole American endeavor is about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. 可是丹尼，生命、自由和追求快乐是所有美国人奋斗的目标。 If people took seriously that finding, 假若大家都认真对待这一发现， I mean, it seems to turn upsi
Thank you. I've got a question for you. Thank you so much. 谢谢您的演讲。我有个问题想请教您。非常感谢您的演说。 Now, when we were on the phone a few weeks ago, 几星期前，我们有过一次电话通讯， you mentioned to me that there was quite an inter
The British Association would later be the first 英国科学进步协会也是后来 of the major national science organizations in the world to admit women as full members. 第一个接收女性成为正式会员的主流国家学术团体。 Up to the 19th century, n
From the point of view of the experiencing self, clearly, B had a worse time. 从经验自我的角度来看，病人B显然是比较难受的。 Now, what you could do with Patient A, and we actually ran clinical experiments, 那么病人A的情况该如何解释，我们实
There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. 还有一些其他理由让我们比过去更难获得平静。 One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the
I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." 我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在“上帝之城”里的一句话，他说，“以社会地位评价人是一种罪”。 In modern English that would mean
You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an "unfortunate" 你知道，在中世纪的英国，当你遇见一个非常穷苦的人，你会认为他“不走运”， literally, somebody who had not been
And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. 我去找他们聊聊西方艺术中最伟大的几个悲剧故事。 I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, 我想知道他们会如何露骨地以新闻的方式， if t
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, 常常，我们对一个成功人生的想象， our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. 不是来自我们自己，而是来自他人。 They're sucked in from other pe
The dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. 今天，最主要的势利就是对职业的势利。 You encounter it within minutes at a party, 你在派对中不用一分钟就能体会到， when you get asked that famous iconic question of th
Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. 我们的英雄是人类。这是一个崭新的情况。 Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: 历史中大部分的社会重心都是敬拜一位人类以外的灵体， a g
That was fascinating. But how do you reconcile this idea of it being bad to think of someone as a "loser," 说的真好。你要如何与自己和解，把一个人称为失败者是糟糕的， with the idea that a lot of people like, of seizing control of
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, 今日你变得像比尔·盖茨一样，有钱又出名的机会， as it was unlikely in the 17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the Fren
For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, 我经常对事业感到恐慌，周日下午，晚霞洒满天空， and the gap between my hopes for myself and the real
The fountains mingle with the river 泉水汇入溪流 And the rivers with the ocean 溪流汇入海洋 The winds of Heaven mix forever 天际缕缕清风总是交织而至 With a sweet emotion 甜蜜涌动 Nothing in the world is single 这世上没有什么是形单影只的 All
