I would suggest that it's not unlike the wedge that Hirsch drives between the concept of meaning and the concept of significance.

我想说明这不是赫施放在,意思和意义之间的差别。

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You can adapt it for any sort of possible purpose, but the crucial thing is to keep the distinction between meaning and significance clear."

你可以为任何目的将其改编，但重要的是你必须,将意思和意义分清楚“

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So what's going on in this case is, I want to distinguish between shallow equality and deep equality.

第一件事情就是,测试浅意义上的相等，这什么意思呢,这是个不太好的英语句子。

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These are dimensions of communication that I've been identifying in "Mowing" with the whisper of the scythe, that is, a tone of meaning or a way of meaning.

这是谈话的特点,这个是我在“割草“中提到的“,镰刀的低语，这就是，一种语调蕴含的意思或者是一种方式的意义。

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I mean, quantum mechanics makes sense to no human being, in my view. In those areas, people are inclined to do sort of strange things.

我的意思是在我看来，量子力学对人类完全没有意义，在那些领域，人们总是倾向于,去做有些奇怪的事情。

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The owner is far more immortal in that sense, close to the immortality, you know.

在这种意义上主人更不朽，接近不朽，我的意思是。

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And the reason I was able to do that and keep with what my original intentions were was to have a career that was the fulfilling, in terms of helping people and being engaged in science, is all of a sudden I realized, as chemists, we can think about better ways to build molecules that are important for making medications.

我能够这么做,并且能不和我原来的打算冲突,是因为我的职业很有意义，能帮助他人，又和科学相关,于是突然我意思到，作为一个化学家,我们可以思考出更好的办法,制造出在制药方面十分有用的分子。

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But if in fact my reading practice can be shown not clearly to distinguish between meaning and significance, well, then that's what would happen.

但如果实际上我的阅读经历不足以让我清晰地,分清楚什么是意思什么是意义，那么，这就是接下来会发生的。

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But if meaning and significance bleed into each other, what I'm going to be doing is establishing a canon, as it were, unconsciously or semiconsciously.

但是意思和意义难以分清，我则会树立起一个顺其自然的标准，无意识地或者是半意识地。

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Then later on, if I wish, I can establish a canon by saying certain texts have certain significance and those are the texts that I care about and want to read, but I can only do that if I can distinguish between meaning and significance.

而后来，如果我希望，我可以通过说什么来树立一个标准,比如说，一些作品有固定意义,因此我只关心只想读那些作品，但是我只有,能够分清意思和意义之后，才能那样做。

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Nevertheless, to secure the distinction in actual practice, to say, "Okay. This is the meaning and now this is how I'm going to make it significant" -well, it seems unlikely indeed that this is something anyone could ever accomplish.

然而，若在实际操作中,你试着去体现这个区别，你会说，好的，这是意思,现在我来将它变成意义“,可是，实际上似乎谁都,无法完成这个任务。

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Well, that's the case only, I say in conclusion, if we can distinguish between meaning and significance.

那么，那只能是这种情况，我总结性地说，如果我们能够区分开什么是意思什么是意义的话。

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