We have two traditions: first, we are not afraid of evil forces; second, we mean what we say.
我们有两个传统：第一不信邪，第二说话算数。
When Stanley Cavell poses the question in the title of one of his books Must We Mean What We Say?
当斯坦利·卡维尔的著作，《我们一定得心口相一么》的书名提出了这个问题时？
When we say "we threw something out," what do we really mean?
当我们在说“我们扔掉了某样东西”，我们的真正意思是什么？
They sort of seemed--even though they didn't say anything, when we were talking to them, when they were sort of pleased, we took that to mean that that was what they were doing.
他们看上去似乎-尽管他们不会说任何事情，在我们向他们阐述的时候，当他们有点高兴的时候，我们将之理解为我们做的就是他们当时正在做的。
Final remark: when European leaders say that we will do everything what is required to save the eurozone, it is very simple. We mean it.
最确定的一点是：如果欧洲领导人说我们会采取一切必要措施来拯救欧元区，那么，非常简单，我们一定会说到做到。
What do we mean when we say “normal”?
我们说的“正常”指的是什么？
What do we mean when we say clustering and how does it differ from caching?
当我们说集群时意味着什么，它和缓存有什么区别？
But this is a dubious move, distinguish two different meanings of a thinking thing, what do we mean when we say that a thinking thing.
但这是一个令人值得怀疑的举动，将思考的事物区分为两个不同的概念，那当我们提及到思考事物的时候，究竟指的是什么呢。
And when we say lower in energy, of course, what we mean is more negative.
当然当我们说能量更低时，我们的意思是更为不活跃。
We have to ask, when we say invisible things can't be destroyed, what did we mean by invisible?
我们要问，当我们说无形的东西不可毁灭，我们所说的无形是什么意思？
If we say we don't have the time, what we really mean is that we don't want to make the time.
如果我们都说我们没有时间，这就意味着我们不想留点时间给对方。
So maybe if we want to say machines don't have a mental life and couldn't have a mental life, what we really mean is no machine could feel anything emotionally.
所以如果我们说机器，没有也不可能有精神生活，我们真正的意思是，机器不能对事物产生情绪。
We also talked about well, what is that when we say wave function, what does that actually mean?
我们还说了，当我们讨论波函数时，它到底有什么意义？
We can mean what we say but we can't mean exactly what we say.
我们可以说出心中所想，但总不能准确表达。
What we say no to and what we say yes to can mean the difference between a life full of regrets, or a life marked by gratitude for a life well lived.
我们所选择的和拒绝的将会决定我们的人生会充满遗憾还是灿烂如锦。
Ordinarily, we just spontaneously say, "I know what that means," or if we don't know what it means, we say, "It must mean something even though I don't know what it means."
一般地，我们会不由自主地说，“我知道那是什么意思“,或者，如果我们不知道它是什么意思，我们会说，“它一定有某种意思，虽然我不知道究竟是啥意思
speech lies because it can never stop being language and therefore we can never really possibly mean exactly what we say.
话语总说谎时因为它不得不最终成为语言,因此事实上我们不可能准确说出,我们真正表达的东西。
In short, therefore, to be trustworthy, we should always say what we mean and mean what we say.
总之，要成为一个值得信赖的人，我们应该时时说内心话和说话算话。
If you have ever heard a player with competent technique, but no real understanding of music, you know what we mean when we say music is more, much more, than the notes on the page.
如果你曾经听过一个富有技巧而不能真正理解音乐的表演者的弹奏，你就会明白我们上面所说的音乐远远不是弹奏音符那么简单。
And yet, because the feeling is so real, and the need to say it is so strong, we are driven to use other words and signs to say what we really mean.
可是，这种情感是真实的，需要说出来的愿望也是强烈的，于是我们就想方设法用别的词语或者方法来表达我们真正的意思。
We Chinese people always mean what we say.
我们中国人从来说话算数。
We say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder, " but what would it mean to look at ourselves as though we really believed this were true?
我们说：”美在眼睛里“，可是看着自己仿佛真地认为这句话是真的，又是什么含义呢？…
What needs to be emphasized is that we Chinese mean what we say.
需要强调的是，中国人说话是算数的。
We don't mean to pressurise you with all these expectations, but what we mean to say is that you must cultivate a basic level of care and compassion.
这并不是要用各种期望来给你施加压力，而是希望你至少有起码的关心与体贴。
We always mean what we say do what we promise.
我们一贯是说话算数的。
So we often have to fall back upon more gifted souls to interpret for us what we mean but cannot say.
所以我们通常不得不依靠有才华的人为我们解释我们表达不出的意思。
So we often have to fall back upon more gifted souls to interpret for us what we mean but cannot say.
所以我们通常不得不依靠有才华的人为我们解释我们表达不出的意思。
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