Even if he was on this train." His moving to the city is an attempt to move away from the natural world and become a thing,a machine.

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But suppose you are in a train and you're moving past me and you look at this piece of chalk.

但假如你在火车上,从我面前驶过,你看着这支粉笔

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They were speeding the mail so that it didn't have to wait to sort it before it went on the train-- it was sorted while it was moving on the train.

发信速度很快,以致于在上火车之前不再需要,等着分类整理-,可以边坐火车边整理。

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