From this perspective, dreams serve no adaptive function at all but rather they're epiphenomena.

从这个角度看，梦境没有自我适应功能,它只是一种副现象。

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Here you've got a magazine that doesn't present itself as attacking anything at all, but rather as what?

你们看到的这份杂志并不是为了抨击什么,那么为什么要创立它？

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I don't just mean the fact that people are dying all around us, but I mean rather, you yourself could die at any time.

我不是说,死去的人都在我们周围，而是说，你自己可能随时会去世。

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But it's a notion that's complicated in this case by the equally imperative notion "get out of the way," which doesn't at all necessarily entail stopping but rather accelerating in a different direction.

但是值得注意，这很复杂,正如红灯有时表示别挡路,它也不是从来都只表示停止,有时也表示向相反方向前进。

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