通过摆弄这些二进制数，他不禁发出疑问：二进制时间——或者说，十进制时间——为什么从未在西方世界流行开来。

All this playing around with binary numbers has made him wonder why binary time—or, for that matter, decimal time—never caught on in the Western world.

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霍夫曼斯塔描述了时间和空间的易逝性，并对人生的意义发出疑问。

Hofmannsthal describes the transitoriness of the time and the space and asks for the meaning of the life.

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这引发出疑问和追寻、 拓展视野使个体从他狭窄自闭的世界中释放出来。

This gives rise to questioning and seeking, which broaden the outlook and enable the individual to go beyond his narrow and self-created world limited and self-centred.

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What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?

大家可以看到，弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问，“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“，又有何益;,当然，就田园诗人而言，诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝？

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