The Magi here are, again, an image, a kind of visionary symbol, an image available "in the mind's eye" at all times.

这儿，三圣贤又是个意象，一个幻想出的标志，时时存在于大脑中的一个意象。

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The position that says, you should always have the fact of your mortality forever before your mind's eye-- I think that's misguided.

那种认为，你应该一直永远想着,你必有一死的事实的观点-,我认为那是有误导的。

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From which I think it follows that the mere fact that I've smuggled myself in as an observer doesn't mean that I don't really believe in the possibility that I'm observing in my mind's eye.

我想接下来就是说,仅仅是我将自己作为观察者进入,这一事实并不代表我不相信,我在脑中构建的这种可能性。

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Well, when you do picture it, there's that room in your mind's eye. You've got a little picture of people sitting around the table perhaps, discussing the business of your club. Uh-oh, I've smuggled myself in as a spectator.

当你真的开始想象时，脑子里就会浮现出一个房间,人们围桌而坐，讨论俱乐部种种事宜，看，我又将自己作为旁观者带入其中了。

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