Sylvie felt as if she were a part of the gray shadows and the silver leaves that moved in the evening breeze.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The world that we live in has both the Evening Star and the Morning Star.

我们所在的世界既有昏星,也有晨星

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The Evening Star is the, roughly speaking, first heavenly body that's visible in the sky as it gets dark, at least at certain times of the year.

粗略说来,昏星就是,天黑时第一个能看见的天体,至少在一年的某个时间段是这样

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One person attending that evening described how the perfection of all things in the museum seemed to have an unusual effect on the guests.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

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Carole White and Mia Farrow, who each have their own account of that evening 13 years ago, are due to appear in court next week.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Different philosophers agree that something's gone wrong in the Morning Star and the Evening Star case, but disagree about the best diagnosis of where the mistake went in.

很多哲学家都认为,在晨星和昏星的例子中,的确存在错误,但是错误出在哪里,哲学家们却各执一词

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So there couldn't be a world in which the Evening Star exists, but the Morning Star doesn't, because that would be a world in which Venus exists and Venus doesn't exist.

所以不可能有一个世界昏星存在,而晨星不存在,因为那意味着在那个世界里金星存在,而同时金星不存在

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I take it that we all agree that when we attempt to run the Cartesian argument in terms of the Morning Star and the Evening Star, it fails. But it's harder to say what went wrong?

我想大家都同意,当我们试图把卡氏论证,用到晨星和昏星的例子上来时,它行不通了,但是很难说我们哪里错了

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The interesting thing about Descartes' argument is that it's easy to see something has gone wrong in the case of the Morning Star and the Evening Star, but it's difficult to pin down what exactly went wrong.

笛卡尔论证的奇妙之处在于,我们能明显感觉到,晨星和昏星的例子中,有些东西不对劲,但很难确定,错误到底在出哪里

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