The writer is the first man to map it and to name the natural objects it contains. Those berries are edible. That speckled creature that bolted across my path might be tamed. That lake between those trees will be called Lake Opal or, more artistically, Dishwater Lake.

而作者本人则是第一个为它绘制地图并为每一个自然事物,命名的人，这种讲过是可以吃的，那只身上带斑点,从我身边窜过，的动物也许能被驯服，树木之间的那个湖泊,可以叫“蛋白石湖“，或者，更艺术的，“洗盘水湖“

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We use it differently now. But the fact is that the common or profane state is the natural default state of most objects and things. This table is just profane. It's common.

现在它的用法不同了，事实上,“普通“或者“世俗“的状态都是,大部分事物的自然状态，这张桌子是世俗的，它很普通。

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Now, if we push the dualist to explain what is it about free will that rules out the possibility that we are merely physical objects, I think the natural suggestion to spell out the argument goes like this, and this is where we were at the end of last time.

现在如果我们让二元论者去解释,什么是自由意志,它又是如何否定,人仅仅是物理实体这种可能性的,我认为他们自然会这样,阐述这个论证,这是就我们在上节课结束时讲到的内容

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