If we build an engine for a car or anything else, it almost always is going to have some key element that's operating in a cycle, otherwise it won't keep going, right.

如果我们为一辆汽车，或其他什么东西制造一台引擎,它总要有一些关键，要素来形成循环。

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If we have a small engine, and we have to pull the car up a steep hill,a difficult hill, the engine is more likely to collapse,to blow up.

如果我们用的引擎很小，想把车开上一个陡峭崎岖的山坡，引擎很容易损毁，爆炸。

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The engine is not a car.

发动机不是汽车。

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And an analogy I like to think about is that your--when you bring your car in to repair it-- for repairs, when you're repairing your car, the first thing you do is you stomp it and shut off the engine.

我想打个比方,当你开你的车去修时-,当你修你的车时，你首先要做的是,刹车，关掉引擎。

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Can we conclude from the argument from recycling and the fact that the engine is a prior existing part from which the car was built, that the engine will continue to exist forever after the destruction of the car.

能否根据源于轮回的论证以及,发动机是汽车成形之前就,已经存在的部分这一事实，得出结论说发动机能够在,汽车毁掉后还继续永远存在。

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And of course even if in many cases, the engine continues to exist for a while, after the destruction of the car, certainly it doesn't follow the engine is immortal that continues to exist forever.

当然，即使在许多情况下，发动机在汽车毁坏后，能继续存在一段时间，但当然不能得出结论说,发动机是不朽的会永远存在下去。

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