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When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
当我来到普林斯顿的时候，我很重视参加哲学俱乐部，听讲座，但是我没有参与任何俱乐部的讨论。我想第一年之后，我就放弃了。
We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.
我们不能随便说印第安角核电站是安全的，我们必须着眼于长远，因为它最终会退役，我们现在必须积极工作，引进新的能源。
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
关键不在于保持边缘地位，而在于参与其他学科中心形成的任何边缘地带网络，这些边缘地带共同构成了这些权威机构的多重转移。
At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.
在某种程度上，他似乎在试图推倒柏林墙时失去了所有的信心。他仍在像只有卡斯帕罗夫才能做到的那样战斗，但我能从他的眼睛里看出，他知道自己不会赢得其中一场比赛。
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
当然，我们想要保护我们的孩子免受新的痛苦经历的伤害，这些经历超出了他们的情感理解，加剧了他们的焦虑;在某种程度上，我们可以防止过早地接触这些经历。
I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
我必须在智力上和情感上都感到满足，因为在那个时候，一个人不只是沉浸在青春期的情感中，我对每一点都很满意，那就是这是一种做事的方式，也是一种困难的方式。
It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
只是所有的一切都戛然而止，到了一无所有的地步，我才终于意识到，嘿，你为什么要和这个做斗争?在那之前，我并没有把我的信仰当作自己的信仰;我是伴随着它长大的。
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.
女权主义者站在了一个站不住脚的位置，捍卫着他们不再相信的东西，而历史将迫使他们认识到，这些东西对文明的大多数核心支柱都是破坏性的。我只是第一个公开指出这一点的人。
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
说到野生动物，我们必须努力保护那些我们能保护它们的地方。很明显，有些物种如果不能完全消失，就必须由人类来照顾。
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
我爱罗森伯格。我喜欢他在视觉历史上创造了一个转折点，他重新定义了美的概念，他把绘画、雕塑、摄影和日常生活与这样的苦味结合在一起，用他自己的话说，他感兴趣的是“将失败视为进步的能力”。
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
每个人都或多或少有点疯狂。
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
只有在制度崩溃的边缘，才能实现规划布局的完善。
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
现实与理想没有绝对的界限，也没有绝对的界限。
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
生命中有些时刻，有些感受;你只能指着它们走过去。
What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.
如果没人看，做点好事又有什么意义呢?