A comedy act in earlier days often included a part where one of the comedians would hit the others over the head with a soft object.

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So physicalists do not believe in any immaterial object above and beyond the body that's part of a person.

所以物理主义者不相信,任何超越肉体的非物质实体的存在

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You need to pin down an object of study, a first principle from which other principles can emerge, and part of the process is to say, "Hey, it's not literature we're talking about.

首要原则是，需要锁定要谈论，即学习的目标，可是，谁知道什么是文学。

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That's common sense. This is part of your DNA, And then their final product is an object, a b which ends up at a temperature or a warmness which is in between the hot and the cold.

这是常识，是你的一部分，它们的最终产物是一个物体，其温度或温暖程度,介于热与,冷之间。

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There's always the sense that Dean evades him, and I think part of that sense of an evading object of desire is, again, the pursuit of sex in this novel; it's part of the pursuit of sex.

总有种感觉好像迪恩在躲着他，而且我想这种回避的部分要求，一样，在这小说里还是对性的追求。

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