Sometimes we refer to them as "great books"-- in other words, the sort of text that speaks, or we feel as though it's speaking, to all places and times.

有时我们把这些称作为“伟大的书“,也就是说，在各个时空都有影响力的那些作品。

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It doesn't really matter as long as we're comfortable talking about entire space-time worm, the car and the slices, or the stages.

只要我们接受,它整个是条时空虫,可以接受它的切分，阶段,这样就可以了。

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When we do relativity, we'll be dealing with vectors in space-time and we'll find that different observers disagree on what is this and what is that.

我们学习相对论的时侯,会涉及到时空矢量的问题,我们会发现观测者们对于观测的结果,有着不同的看法

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Is the space-time worm that makes up this car the same sapce-time worm as the one ? that made up my car?

这辆车的时空虫,跟我那辆车的时空虫,是不是一样的？

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But by looking at the stages, we pick out a space-time worm that makes up a person.

但看着这个阶段，我们联想到组成那个人的,时空虫。

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So the number two, the numbers, three, whatever it is, whatever they are, are these Platonic abstract entities that don't exist in space and time.

因而,数字2,数字3,不管它们是什么,至少它们都是不存在于时空中的,柏拉图式的抽象实体

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There's the person Napoleon,a space-time worm that came to an end in France.

有一个叫拿破仑的人，一个时空蠕虫在法国寿终正寝。

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Napoleon,if you think of it,Napoleon's a person extended through space and time.

这样，拿破仑是一个跨越时空的人。

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And we're asking: Is that the very same space-time worm as the one we picked out previously or a different space-time worm ? than the one we picked out previously?

然后我们问：,这条时空虫,跟我们之前指的一样吗,还是和我们之前指的,不是同一条时空虫？

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It's another thing to say that they are Y-shaped space-time worms.

说人类是Y形的时空蠕虫是另一回事。

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