"If an actress is getting older and you can tell by looking at her or him that they have had plastic surgery, then that takes away what people liked about that actor in the first place."

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Now let's say that we're into polymers. We know what plastic is.

现在假设我们知道聚合物，我们就知道塑料是什么。

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What do you think of people who are addicted to plastic surgery?

你是如何看待那些整容上瘾的人呢？

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The bad prejudice is when we leap to the conclusion, without thinking for a moment that there might be some other historical horizon, that we know what plastic means.

坏先见就是我们直接得出结论，也没有想一下,可能有其他的历史背景，就觉得我们知道plastic是什么了。

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What do you think of plastic surgery?

你怎么看待整形手术？

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You have to find out what "pulls up" means in the same way that the adult reader of Pleasures of the Imagination has to find out what "plastic" means.

我们得找出“停下来“究竟是什么意思,正如读《想象的愉悦》的大人,需要找到“塑料“的意思。

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We have no concern or hesitation in saying what plastic is, and so we say, "Oh, gee. Well, I guess the great creator has a sort of a prosthetic limb and he raised it. All right.

我们能毫不迟疑地说出塑料是什么，所以我们说，哎呀，我猜造物主,装了义肢，还将它抬了起来，好。

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