In the meantime the Eiffel Tower is a wonderful way of showing the degree to which the vertical axis is virtual.

与此同时，埃菲尔铁塔,很好地向大家展示了,竖轴在何种程度上是虚拟的。

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The Eiffel Tower is a virtuality that organizes things, as one might say, arbitrarily.

埃菲尔铁塔实质上组织了其周围事物，可以说是，随意地。

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Well mommy used to take us to Chamonix for the--pour les vacances d'hiver." Or, "Our apartment next to the Tour d'Eiffel gave me contact with zee French people."

放寒假的时候,我妈总带我去霞慕尼",还有的说,我家就在艾菲尔铁塔旁边,我跟国人接触的多"

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we "put both feet squarely on the ground" of the Eiffel Tower, we're liberated from the idea that somehow or another it's a governing presence.

如果，我们将，“双脚平放于地面“，站在埃菲尔铁塔上，我们就摆脱了,它是一种支配性的存在的观点。

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That is to say, if you ever saw a dotted line standing upright, it's the Eiffel Tower.

也就是说，如果你看到由点连成的竖线时，那就是埃菲尔铁塔。

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The Twin Towers had the same function in New York that the Eiffel Tower has in Paris.

双子座对于纽约的作用,与埃菲尔铁塔对于巴黎的作用相同。

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in which we infer the Eiffel Tower from its surroundings.

我们根据埃菲尔铁塔周围的环境来推断它是有意义的。

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