But if meaning and significance bleed into each other, what I'm going to be doing is establishing a canon, as it were, unconsciously or semiconsciously.

但是意思和意义难以分清，我则会树立起一个顺其自然的标准，无意识地或者是半意识地。

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Then later on, if I wish, I can establish a canon by saying certain texts have certain significance and those are the texts that I care about and want to read, but I can only do that if I can distinguish between meaning and significance.

而后来，如果我希望，我可以通过说什么来树立一个标准,比如说，一些作品有固定意义,因此我只关心只想读那些作品，但是我只有,能够分清意思和意义之后，才能那样做。

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Now,in posing this question,I'm obviously presupposing that we can draw a distinction between the question,Do I survive?

提出这个问题的时候我显然已经假设,我们能够分清，我是否生存？

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The president always put those issues first, devoted the time they needed, devoted the resources they needed.

总统先生总是分清主次，分配好所需的时间，分配好所需的资源。

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It's not so important that you know which sugars fall under each of these categories, but it is important to know that there are different categories of sugars.

分清哪些糖属于哪个种类,对你们来说并不重要,但是知道糖有不同种类却很重要

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having distinguished between what we've called the death of the body and the death of the person, the question whether or not you're going to die needs to be distinguished.

在我们分清了,肉体的死亡,和个人的死亡后，关于你是否会死的问题,也需要进行分辨。

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