反映只是认识产生和形成的基础，选择和建构只是认识过程中不可或缺的环节，单纯用反映、选择或建构不足以揭示认识的本质。

Reflection is the basis of cognition. Choice and construction are indispensable links in the course of cognition. Either of them alone doesn't reveal the essence of cognition.

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美洲土著认识到他们生活的本质无法用英语交流，他们认为重要的事件往往被采访者轻视。

Native Americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English and that events that they thought significant were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers.

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我们应该学会认识和分析复杂问题的本质。

We should learn to discern and analyze the essentials of complicated questions.

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We feel as we process the world around us that we know things for and as what they are.

我们觉得我们认识的事物,都是事物真实的本质。

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When people say,You know,everyone dies alone, you're supposed to be gaining some deep insight into the nature of death.

当人们说，每个人都孤独而死，这应该让你得到对死亡本质的深刻认识。

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CEO It's like the royal "we." It's more like the imperial CEO and they build up a huge amount of people around them and they very rarely get to the nub of the problem.

就像皇家的“我们“，更像帝王,他们在身旁埋下了很多的人脉,他们很少能够认识到问题的本质。

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