And when he goes picking in the cotton fields, he imagines that he could be a slave.

当他去采棉花的时候，他把自己想象成一个奴隶。

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The extended-through-space train that I'm picking out when I pointed the locomotive turns out to be a different train from the extended-through-space train I picked out when I pointed to the caboose.

当我指着火车头,所提到的贯穿空间的火车,和我指着火车尾,所提到的贯穿空间的火车,不是同一辆。

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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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