In a world without the ultimate meaning, the process of quest becomes more important. 意义不再是品钦小说中人物追寻的终极目标,面对一个失去终极意义的世界,追寻的过程更加重要。
The ultimate goals of criticizing the above-mentioned phenomenon are the quest of the researcher's self-identity and the enlargement of the horizon of the researcher's life. 而批判这些现象的最终目的,则在追寻研究者的自我认同,并扩大研究者的生命视野。
Death may remain the ultimate certainty, but in recent decades extending life has become an ever more obsessive quest, consuming growing resources, effort and debate. 死亡也许最终无法避免,但最近几十年,延长寿命已成为人们更加迫切的追求,耗费了越来越多的资源、精力,并引发了诸多争论。