But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

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And there is no way to explain this phenomenon if you model the water as having particle-like properties.

没有其他的方法来解释这种现象,除非认为,水是一种具有粒子的性质。

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They emerge from this indifferent primal realm, This mixture of salt and sea waters, that is the source of all being and the source of ultimate power, But they age and they mature and they fight and they die.

他们都来自没有差别的原始王国，那盐和水的混合体就是一切生物的本源,也是极权的来源，但是他们会成长，成熟，战争，又死去。

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Or this community that doesn't have safe drinking water so regularly children die of diarrhea because they cannot afford to treat their water, they don't have the fuel to boil their water or something.

可能还有这样一个地方，那里没有安全的饮用水,孩子们时常死于痢疾,因为他们拿不出钱对水进行处理，也没有燃料来把水烧开。

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In fact, I do this as well, I mean I have water with me and I have no idea why because I'm not particularly dehydrated.

事实上,我也整天带着水壶,我是说我随身带水,但又不知道为什么要带,因为我并没有特别的脱水症状

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And my guess is that if we did taste tests with all you guys of all the popular bottled waters, very few people could probably pick out Evian from any other water.

我猜如果让你们,喝各种瓶装水让你们去分辨,没有几个人能尝出依云和其它水的区别

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