It's twofold: its inauthentic relationship with the things it looks at and also its inauthentic relationship with its own underpinnings.

它是两方面的：它与所观之物间非本真的关系,以及它与自己支柱间非本真的关系。

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Their argument is that it's not just that consciousness doesn't clearly understand what it's looking at and is therefore alienated from it.

他们的论点是,意识不仅无法清楚地理解它所观之物,因而与之疏远。

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We are no longer certain at all of what we're looking at, and consciousness, therefore, feels alienated.

我们再也不能确定我们所观之物是什么，于是，意识疏远了。

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We have "unhappy consciousness," unhappy consciousness which is the result of estrangement, or Verfremdung, and which drives us too far away from the thing that we're looking at.

我们有了苦恼意识,苦恼意识源于疏远，又使我们距离所观之物过远。

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It's also that consciousness is alienated from its own underpinnings, that it doesn't have any clear sense of where it's coming from any more than what it's looking at: in other words, that consciousness is not only estranged from the world but that it is in and of itself inauthentic.

意识也与自身的基础疏远，它对自身从何而来的认识,并不比对所观之物的认识多：,也就是说，意识不仅与自身所处的世界疏远,而且与非本真的自身疏远。

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