He had read much, if one considers his long life, but his contemplation was much more than his reading.

人们说他漫长的一生，便一定会说他饱读诗书，但他的思想却比他的阅读丰富得多。

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It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

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What Gadamer does in his essay is actually an act of intellectual conservatism, it has to be admitted.

伽达默尔在他文章里说的,是思想保守主义的一种表现，这点必需得承认。

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