Frost's "sound of sense," the abstract vitality of our speech.

弗罗斯特的“感性的声音“或者是我们讲的抽象活力。

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His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

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If something is good just because it is pleasurable, what does it matter whether you have sort of an abstract idea of whether it is good by someone else's sense or not?

既然令人喜爱的事物就是好的，那么何必在乎,别人对它的感受如何，这般抽象的观念呢？

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In particular, all languages, at minimum, are powerful enough to convey an abstract notion like this; abstract in the sense that it talks about thoughts and it talks about a proposition and spatial relations in objects.

尤其是所有的语言都至少,能够有效地表达抽象概念,在某种意义上来说,抽象概念能够表达思想,能够表述物体的位置与空间关系

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