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So billboards and announcements in streets, around construction sites, in subways, in the back of cabs,... speak to me in an abstract language.

所以街上、建筑工地周围、地铁里、出租车后面等地方的公告栏或告示，对我来说就是一种抽象的语言。

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The concept of material to me is quite simple, not so abstract, just to realize things with senses or physical method.

物质对我来讲很简单，没有那么抽象，就是可以用感官或者物理方法去认识的事物。

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So literary can sometimes be very abstract like mathematics, and therefore, if someone says make me a movie, showing me what the square of minus two means that is going to be a challenge.

文学有时候也可以很抽象,像数学，因此如果有人说,给我做一部电影吧,给我展示一下负二的平方,那将是一个挑战。

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The benefits were very abstract to me.

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Money, for me, had become completely abstract.

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Like many civilians, for me the military and military life exist in the abstract.

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