You can compel the compiler to treat some value as a different type of value, at least if it makes intuitive sense that that should be possible.

你可以控制编译器处理,不同类型的数据，至少我们凭直觉,它应该是可能的。

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The book was written with zest, and if possible it should be read that way.

这是一部伴随热情写成的书，最好也应该带着热情去读它。

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It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

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Maybe we should say, the mere fact that it's possible for A and B to be separate--for A to exist without B for example, that's clearly where they're separate-- the mere fact that it's possible for them to be separate doesn't mean that in the actual world they are separate.

也许我们应该说,A和B有可能不同,比如 可能A存在,而B不存在,这是它们明显的不同之处,它们有可能不同,并不意味着,在现实世界它们也是不同的

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