I can't imagine myself without it." Surveys show about one in four Americans have no Internet access at all.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

If the mind is just a way of talking about the body, how could I imagine the mind without the body?

如果心灵只不过是身体的另一种说法,我怎么能独立于身体想象心灵呢

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If I were" is useful for talking about things that you hope for, things that you imagine to happen,

If I were”在谈论你渴望的事情和想象会发生的事情时非常有用。

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Imagine the pride of working at a publishing company whose product just about everybody knew,loved, and bought by the millions.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

So although of course it's true, when I imagine these various possibilities without me, I'm thinking about them. I'm observing them.

所以即便真的，当我想象这些没有我存在的可能的时候，我同时也在观察着这些可能。

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He says he never dared imagine he could see his daughter alive, and hear about his hometown.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

It's not a simple matter. Imagine what it would be like if you had to learn about sixty such things?

绝不是个简单的事,想象一下如果你得学,六十个字母会是什么状况

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"Well,one of the things that's interesting about these flexible sheets is that they can be curved, so you could imagine putting them in unconventional forms, like on the surface of a vehicle or something like that, where you don't have a flat surface."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

Since we're talking about wave functions, since we're talking about the properties of waves, we don't only have constructive interference, we can also imagine a case where we would have destructive interference.

因为我们讨论的是波函数，因为我们讨论的是波的性质，我们不仅有相长干涉，我们也可以想象在,某种情况下会有相消干涉。

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We have the same basic structure, the same outcomes, but we imagine people cared about different things and we end up with a very different answer.

博弈的结构,结果都一样,但是人们在乎的东西不同了,所以我们得到了完全不同的答案

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If you can imagine yourself in that situation, what would you decide about inequality?

设想下自己正处于那种情形中，你会怎么看待不平等呢？

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That's the huge force that we're talking about in terms of making a bond stable, but there are also repulsive forces, so you can imagine we're going to have electron-electron repulsion between the two electrons if we're bringing them closer together.

正是这个非常强的力,使得我们所讨论的这个键能够稳定存在，但是其中还有排斥力存在，大家可以想象一下,我们会有电子与电子之间的排斥力,如果让它们离得更近。

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If you start thinking about narrative arcs-- imagine a novel, right?

如果你想想生命叙事线-,想象有一部小说？

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So imagine the following example, an invader is thinking about invading a country, and there are two ways -- there are two passes if you like -- through which he can lead his army.

想象一下这样的例子,一个侵略者打算入侵一个国家,有两条路,想象成两个关口也行,侵略者必须通过一个才能进入

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Although I don't quite understand--I should say, there's many things about how the fighting went on which we can only attempt to imagine because we just don't have films of ancient hoplite battles, I'm sorry to say.

虽然我有时也很困惑,比如说,战场上瞬息万变,情况非常复杂,由于没有古代重步兵白刃战的影像资料,我们只能猜想战场上发生了什么,真的是很遗憾

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How could it even be possible to imagine my mind without my body, if talking about my mind is just a way of talking about my body?

怎能想象自己的心灵独立于身体存在呢,如果心灵只不过是身体的另一种说法

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And I tried to motivate this question by having you think about perhaps the possibility, if the soul view was the truth about personal identity, but imagine a case of complete irreversible amnesia, while nonetheless,it's still your soul continuing.

我试图通过让你们思考,灵魂理论有没有可能是个人认同感的真相，这个可能性，来推动这个问题，但是想象完全不可治愈的失忆，尽管你的灵魂仍然继续存活。

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Depends on--I don't want to be too rigorous about that because you could imagine the other way around, but if you talk to managers this sounds more realistic, at least for retail goods like Coke and Pepsi.

这方面我不想太绝对,因为你们可能会想象其他的情形,但如果你们和那些经理谈过,现在的模型会更贴近现实,至少对于可乐这样的零售产品而言

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There's all these pleasures of experiencing art and seeing a beautiful sunset. And I don't know about you, but at least when I imagine the rat lever thing, it's a sort of simple, undifferentiated pleasure.

体验艺术是快乐的,观赏美丽的日落是快乐的，我不了解你们，但当我想象老鼠杠杆时，那是一种简单，单调的快乐。

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You've got to imagine changing some of the facts about what it would be like to live forever So instead of asking the question ? the question I started with,would it be good to live forever?

你得想象改变一些,关于永生后果的事实,所以不问我开始时的问题,我们不问永生是好事吗？

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We don't always want to go and solve the Schrodinger equation, and in fact, once we start talking about molecules, I can imagine none of you, as much as you love math or physics, want to be trying to solve this Schrodinger equation in that case either. So, what Lewis structures allow us to do is over 90% of the time be correct in terms of figuring out what the electron configuration is.

我们并不想每次都去解薛定谔方程，而且实际上，一旦我们开始讨论分子，我可以想象,你们中没有一个人，不管你有多么热爱数学或物理，会想去解这种情况下的薛定谔方程,总之，路易斯结构能让我们,有超过，90%，的概率判断出正确的,电子排布。

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Because if B was just another word for, another way of talking about, A, then to imagine A existing but B not existing would be imagining A existing but-- well, B is just A--A not existing.

因为如果B只是,A的另一种表达方式,那么认为A存在而,B不存在就是认为A存在但,B,也就是A,却不存在

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And this is really interesting to think about because you can imagine in our body we have concentrations of all types of ions, and specifically, some seem very, very similar to each other.

这是非常令人感兴趣的,因为大家可以想象一下，在我们的体内我们有,一定浓度的任何类型的离子，而且特别地，其中有一些非常非常地相似。

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But I think if you can imagine, up to a couple of hours would be about right.

但是如果你想一下的话,最多几个小时吧

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So imagine we're talking about beer, think about beer, so this is the beer market.

想象我们说的是啤酒,想想啤酒,所以这是啤酒市场

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I'm going to tell about myself, but you know, you'll find the argument sort of, perhaps more persuasive if, as I tell the story, you imagine the story being told about you.

在故事中讲的是我自己,但你们会发现,如果你们相信故事说的是你们自己,这个论证就会更有说服力

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So, you can imagine, we could talk about any of the different electrons, or we could talk about taking out an electron and taking out second electron.

你可以想象一下，我们其实可以讨论任何一个不同的电子，或者讨论拿走一个电子,还是两个电子。

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Yet even there, when I imagine an eternity of thinking about math--or for that matter, an eternity of thinking about philosophy, which I obviously like even more than math-- the prospect seems an unattractive one.

即使如此，当我想到让我永远,思考数学问题，或者说，让我永远思考哲学问题，显然和数学相比，我更钟情于它-,但这个提议也变得无趣。

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Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

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