And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.

我也觉得很好玩,因为我可能不知道你们最后选择的小说，所以对我来说,认真对待你们选的一本书很有挑战性,可能是一本我知道的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well, what I would say there is there is a distinction ... between picking out individuals and having a random choice of individuals. Like ... Between picking out... let me make sure, ... between picking out individuals, let me... what's your name?

我要说的是，选出特定的一些个体,和随机选出一些个体是有区别的，比如。,两者是有区别的，让我确认一下，挑选特定的个体，你叫什么名字？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It's rather, "Can you imagine a world in which the very thing that you really are picking out when you refer to me by the name Shelly-- namely this thing-- can you imagine a world in which that thing exists, but the thing that you're picking up when you use the word Kagan does not exist?"

而是在于,你能不能想象在一个世界里,你用薛立这个名字,指的那个人,也就是这个东西,你能不能想象在一个世界里某个东西存在,而你用卡根这个词,所指的这个东西却不存在

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