正如清澈的思维能力需要培养一样，人的想象功能也需要开发；

Like the capacity to think clearly, the individual's imaginative faculty must also be developed;

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语言的想象功能是创造性的使用语言，甚至是前所未闻的，就像用独特的方式表达象征或者描述敬畏，疑惑，悲痛和狂喜。

The imaginative makes use of language in creative ways, possibly even unheard of before, such as unique ways to symbolize or portray fear, doubt, agony or even euphoria.

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想象一下，你住在一间小房子里，里面安装了具有抗干扰功能的无线安全装置。

Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.

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What I've done is imagine a case in which the personality functioning stops before the rest of the body functioning stops.

现在我要做的只是想象一个,人格功能在生理功能停止前停止的例子。

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And now imagine,so this is personality.

现在想象一下，人格功能在这里产生。

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