Our writer for today thinks so highly of that capacity of literature to embody the human voice that he imagines a whole religious world around him.
我们今天的作者高度赞赏文学的容量,能使人的声音具体化,以致他,想象出了一个宗教的世界。
You can look at it with those poems in mind where Yeats imagines a new world coming into being, ushered in through the blood of the old.
你们可以回忆一下那两首诗,其中叶芝想象了一个新的世界,那从旧世界鲜血里开辟。
Could we similarly say, "I didn't really imagine a world in which my mind exists but my body doesn't"?
我们可不可以简单地说,我并没有真正想象到一个,我的心灵存在,但身体不存在的世界
Imagine a world where your greatest fears become reality.
想象一个世界,在这里你最大的恐惧将成为现实。
And, so, as things are going downhill many people in Paris said look, we must keep fighting, but we must imagine a different world where--we have, we're being betrayed by the provinces that are not helping us, and we need to have help from the provinces.
于是局势日渐危急,许多在巴黎的人说,我们必须战斗,我们要想象出一个全新的世界,有些省份对我们坐视不理,我们被遗弃了,我们需要其他省的援助
Imagine a world in which Kagan exists, but Shelly doesn't exist, because nobody in the world is named Shelly.
想象在一个世界里卡根存在,而薛立不存在,因为这个世界里面没人叫薛立
But try to imagine a world in which the Evening Star exists, but the Morning Star does not.
但是尝试想象在一个世界里昏星存在,而晨星不存在
I can imagine a world in which the Evening Star exists, but the Morning Star doesn't.
我可以想象一个昏星存在,而晨星不存在的世界
Well, maybe I did imagine a world in which the Morning Star exists and the Evening Star doesn't exist, but maybe imagining doesn't mean it's possible.
或许我想象这一个,晨星存在,但昏星不存在的世界,但也许想象并不表示可能
That's why I could imagine a world with one but not the other.
因此我才能想象在,一个世界里只有其一存在
Can I imagine a world in which my left hand exists, but my right hand doesn't?
我能不能想象在一个世界里我的左手存在,而我的右手不存在
We can easily imagine a world in which I don't have the last name Kagan or perhaps to switch it around, Shelly's not my name.
我们可以容易地想象一个世界里,我不姓卡根或者,反过来,我不叫薛立
Try to imagine a world in which somebody's smile exists but their body doesn't.
试图想象一个世界里某人的微笑存在,而身体不存在
So you can't even imagine a world in which Shelly exists but Kagan doesn't.
所以你甚至无法想象在一个世界里,薛立存在而卡根不存在
That little story I told last time, I thought I was describing a world in which my mind exists and my body doesn't, but it wasn't really imagining a world like that.
我上次讲的那个小故事,我认为我在描述一个,我的心灵存在,但身体不存在的世界,而不是真的想象出那样一个世界
I could imagine a world with unicorns.
我可以想象一个有独角兽的世界
You thought you were imagining a world in which the Evening Star exists and the Morning Star doesn't, but you weren't really imagining a world in which the Evening Star exists and the Morning Star doesn't.
你觉得你在想象一个,昏星存在,但晨星不存在的世界,但你并没有真正地想象出,一个昏星存在,而晨星却不存在的世界
So, as I say, it's a trivial matter to imagine a world in which the Evening Star exists and the Morning Star does not.
我说过,显而易见,想象在一个世界里,昏星存在,而晨星不存在
We could imagine a world like this where it's inevitable; everybody's got some date on it.
我们可以想象这样的一个世界;,每个人都会在某天死去这点是必然的。
Yeah, I can imagine a world in which my mind exists but my body doesn't.
是的,我可以想象在一个世界里,我的心灵存在,而我身体不存在
So imagining a world in which Shelly exists but Kagan doesn't or Kagan exists but Shelly doesn't, that's trying to imagine a world in which I exist but I don't.
所以想象在一个世界里薛立存在,而卡根不存在或者卡根存在而薛立不存在,这就像是要想象在一个世界里,我存在而我不存在
I can imagine a world with unicorns.
我可以想象一个有独角兽的世界
It's rather, "Can you imagine a world in which the very thing that you really are picking out when you refer to me by the name Shelly-- namely this thing-- can you imagine a world in which that thing exists, but the thing that you're picking up when you use the word Kagan does not exist?"
而是在于,你能不能想象在一个世界里,你用薛立这个名字,指的那个人,也就是这个东西,你能不能想象在一个世界里某个东西存在,而你用卡根这个词,所指的这个东西却不存在
you can't imagine a world in which A exists but A doesn't exist.
你无法想象一个A既存在又不存在的世界
Maybe A could be the same thing as B in this logically possible world, but we could imagine a completely different logically coherent world in which A was not the same thing as B.
也许在这某个逻辑世界里,A会和B是同一个东西,但我们可以想象,一个完全不同的另一个逻辑世界里,A和B不是同一个东西
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