In order for the photograph to remind me of Ruth, I have to already have met Ruth.

如果一张照片能使我想起露丝,我必须已经见过露丝了

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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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So I was a counselor for a year, and then they invited me to become a dean, an assistant dean, in order to not only work with individual students and their issues, but to also think about campus culture and ways we might help prepare the culture for the change that was taking place.

这样我做了一年的顾问，之后他们请我做了院长，副院长，这样就不仅仅是处理,一个个学生和他们的事情，还要思考校园的文化,思考如何帮助校园文化准备好,应对将要发生的改变。

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But in order to address that particular question what is for me to survive the death of my body is that even a posibility or not.

但为了解决这个问题,我的肉体不死意味着什么,是否有这样的可能性。

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In order for a more or less just society to remind me of justice itself, so that I can start thinking about the nature of justice itself, I have to somehow have already been acquainted with perfect justice.

如果一个较为正义的社会,能让我想到公正本身,能让我思考公正的本质,我起码需要,对完美的正义有所认识

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