So displacement is a kind of delay or detour of understanding, and condensation, on the other hand, is a kind of distillation of understanding.

所以“移置“是一种滞后的，迂回的理解，而另一方面，“凝缩“,则是理解的提炼过程。

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Let me just give some example of-- sometimes people are very slow to see the obvious, or it seems so in history.

我来举些例子-,有时人们对显见之物的反应反而比较滞后，起码从历史上来看是这样的。

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