It's a very different kind of crafting, but yet it does replace reality in a similar way, or it makes demands on reality that push the real back.

是一种很不一样的工艺，却以同样的方式代替了现实，或者对现实提出要求。

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This is very different from Nabokov's idea of embodiment as a kind of alternate or rival creativity.

这和Nabokov的想法迥然不同,他讲具体化视为一种替代物或者是竞争的创造性。

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Maybe by the different branching patterns that these processes had, or how many processes were on a different kind of neuron, you'd be able to tell something about its function and probably something about where it came from.

通过辨识分化过程中的,不同突起的分支模式,或是不同神经元各异的突起数目,也许你也能分辨出这一细胞的功能,或许还有它的由来

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