The number three is not a physical object, perfect roundness is not a physical object, perfect goodness is not a physical object.

数字三不是一个物理实体,正圆不是一个物理实体,真正的善良不是一个物理实体

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In fact, just because the world is round, you can already see if this is the Earth, to somebody that's the natural direction.

实际上,正由于地球是圆的,你们可以看到如果这是地球,对于某些人来说这才是惯常的方向

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In order for a more or less round plate to remind me of roundness, Plato says, I have to have already met perfect roundness itself.

如果一个或多或少,有点圆的盘子能让我想到正圆,柏拉图认为,我必须已经见过完美的圆本身了

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In this world nothing is perfectly round, nothing is perfectly beautiful, nothing is perfectly just.

这个世界没有正圆,没有什么是绝对漂亮的,没有绝对的正义

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We see something that's more or less round, and it reminds us of perfect circularity.

我们看到较圆的东西,我们会想到正圆

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I look at the plate on my kitchen table, it's not perfectly round, it's got imperfections; but suddenly I start thinking about circles, perfectly round objects.

我看着我餐桌上的盘子,它不是正圆的,它不完美,但是我马上就可以想到圆圈,正圆的东西

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Well, there's an explanation of how it could be that things that are not themselves perfectly round could remind us, could make us think about perfect roundness.

这也许解释了为什么有些,本身并不是那么圆的东西,会让我们想到正圆这个型相

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Perfect roundness is not a physical object.

正圆也不是

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