It doesn't have to be a real container to contain it It's just an imaginary boundary there.

它不必是,一个真实的容器,只是一个想象的边界。

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I heard one of them say to an imaginary suitor, "and you without health or a home."

我听到有人对臆想的原告说，你没有健康，你没有家庭“

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Meanwhile, his youth was going away and now this imaginary student is now thirty-three years old never had time to marry or start a normal life.

与此同时，他的青春年华也已经逝去了,现在这位设想出来的同学已经33岁了,还没有结婚也没有开始正常人的生活。

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If you had one negative number in it, then the product would be a negative number and, if you took a root of that, then you might get an imaginary number.

如果这当中有一个负数,乘积就会变成负的,如果你对一个负数开根号,你就会得到一个虚数

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