But consider that the bones of "the Lovely bones" belong not to the victim but to an abstract and quite positive idea — namely, that bones are the structure on which living things are built.

但是这正是由于《可爱的骨头》中的骨头并不属于受害者，而属于一个抽象而相当积极的观点——也就是，骨头是建立生命所需的结构。

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Those nouns express a vague concept or an abstract idea, not a specific action that we can picture.

这些词语描述的都是一个模糊或抽象的概念，不是我们能够明确说明的行动。

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Let us first find out what love is, not as an abstract idea but what it actually is.

我们首先来弄清爱是什么，不是一个抽象的概念而是爱实际上是什么。

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If something is good just because it is pleasurable, what does it matter whether you have sort of an abstract idea of whether it is good by someone else's sense or not?

既然令人喜爱的事物就是好的，那么何必在乎,别人对它的感受如何，这般抽象的观念呢？

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