当我尽我所能去想象一种永远令人向往或有吸引力的存在时，根本想象不出。总会变成一场噩梦。

When I do my best to imagine some kind of existence that would be desirable or attractive forever, it just doesn't work. It becomes a nightmare.

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和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了，就像我写的东西必须是事实，不能虚构，但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象，去创作。

I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.

youdao

要敢去想象这会变成事实的。

Dare to imagine that this could come true.

youdao

Try to imagine-- can you do that or can you not do that?-- try to imagine a round square.

试着去想象,你可不可以这样,试着去想象一个圆的方形

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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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And again, Kafka invites us to imagine waking up into a body of a cockroach and we can.

这里,卡夫卡再次带领我们去想象,一觉醒来却变成一只甲虫的场景,而我们是可以想象到的

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