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无神论者应该如何对待宗教?阿兰.德波顿提出了一种"无神论的宗教"--名为无神论2.0,其中包括了宗教中的传统仪式, 人与人之间的互相依赖，以及人们对超凡脱俗的需要。
n. 开始，毕业典礼
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- And I'd like to run through a few of these today.
- 现在我想具体地解释一下
- I'd like to kick off by looking at education.
- 先从教育说起
- Now education is a field the secular world really believes in.
- 非宗教的人们十分相信学习、教育的力量
- When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place,
- 我们觉得教育使世界进步
- we think education; that's where we put a lot of money.
- 我们还在教育上花了很多钱
- Education is going to give us, not only commercial skills, industrial skills,
- 教育不仅仅给我们很多本领，例如商业以及工业技术，
- it's also going to make us better people.
- 还让我们变成更加优秀的人
- You know the kind of thing a commencement address is, and graduation ceremonies,
- 像是那些开学典礼或者毕业典礼的演讲
- those lyrical claims that education, the process of education -- particularly higher education --
- 那些话语都告诉我们教育的过程，特别是高等教育
- will make us into nobler and better human beings.
- 会使我们变成高尚优秀的人才
- That's a lovely idea. Interesting where it came from.
- 那是个很好的想法。这想法的起源也很有意思
- In the early 19th century,
- 在十九世纪初的西欧
- church attendance in Western Europe started sliding down very, very sharply, and people panicked.
- 去教堂的人急速减少，大家也变得紧张起来
- They asked themselves the following question.
- 他们问自己
- They said, where are people going to find the morality, where are they going to find guidance,
- 人们要去哪里寻找好品德，去哪里寻找指引
- and where are they going to find sources of consolation?
- 又去哪里去寻找慰藉呢
- And influential voices came up with one answer. They said culture.
- 那些有影响力的人回答道：文化
- It's to culture that we should look for guidance, for consolation, for morality.
- 我们要在我们的文明中寻找指引，慰藉，和好品德
- Let's look to the plays of Shakespeare, the dialogues of Plato, the novels of Jane Austen.
- 去看莎士比亚的剧本，柏拉图的对话，简·奥斯汀的小说
- In there, we'll find a lot of the truths that we might previously have found in the Gospel of Saint John.
- 我们可以找到很多真理，那些真理很可能也在《约翰福音》中出现过
- Now I think that's a very beautiful idea and a very true idea.
- 我觉得这想法是非常美妙真实的
- They wanted to replace scripture with culture.
- 他们想用文化积淀来代替圣典
- And that's a very plausible idea.
- 这也是非常有道理的
- It's also an idea that we have forgotten.
- 但这也是一个我们已经忘却了的想法
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| commencement | [kə'mensmənt] | 联想记忆 | ||
| influential | [.influ'enʃəl] | |||
| saint | [seint] | |||
| scripture | ['skriptʃə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| consolation | [.kɔnsə'leiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| previously | ['pri:vju:sli] | |||
| guidance | ['gaidəns] | |||
| replace | [ri(:)'pleis] | |||
| commercial | [kə'mə:ʃəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| address | [ə'dres] |
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