So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

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So what it might be would be a phrase that has struck one as if for the first time.

因此这种支点也许是,某人刚刚想到的一个短语。

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You adjust the lengths and when it balances, you can sort of tell what this mass is, right?

调整它与支点的距离,然后当它平衡时,你就能得到质量是多少,对吧

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Absolutely. Now generally, there is some little hook.

当然，创作在通常情况下都有一些小支点。

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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