The Garden of Forking Paths is an enormous guessing game, or parable, in which the subject is time. The rules of the game forbid the use of the word itself.

小径分岔的花园是一个庞大的谜语，或者是寓言故事，谜底是时间，这一隐秘的原因不允许手稿中出现‘时间’这个词。

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This is what I tried to say by way of a parable or a song in The Echo.

这就是我通过一个比喻或是一首诗歌在《回声》中试图所说的。

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I have no idea if this story is true or false, parable or memoir - but it has stuck with me ever since I read it years ago.

我不知道这个故事是真实的还是虚构的，是寓言还是传纪，但在数年前看到这个故事时深深震撼着我。

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As a model of economic activity or as a kind of vocation guide, this parable couldn't be more opposed -- or to some wouldn't seem more opposed - to the parable of the unprofitable servant.

作为一种经济活动,或者职业引导的典型,这则寓言于那个没获利的仆人的,寓言截然相反。

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