We make the future in the same way: weextrapolate as much as we can, and whenever we run out of imagination, we justshovel the present into the holes.

我们以同样的方式塑造未来：我们尽可能地（根据现状）做出推断，当想象力耗尽之时，我们就会用现状填补想象的真空。

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But it's still a promise, and it's a promise of the powers of imagination and of poetry, and of poetry made out of play, of a child's play.

但始终还是一个希望，一个想象力和诗歌伟大力量的希望，这些诗是从玩中来的，从孩子们的玩耍中。

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Also focus on the memory of how your imagination tricks you, always blowing things out of proportion.

同样要关注你对想象出来的成功美好图景的记忆，要夸大它。

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But we're certainly not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination,".

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But it's still a promise, and it's a promise of the powers of imagination and of poetry, and of poetry made out of play, of a child's play.

但始终还是一个希望，一个想象力和诗歌伟大力量的希望，这些诗是从玩中来的，从孩子们的玩耍中。

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You have to find out what "pulls up" means in the same way that the adult reader of Pleasures of the Imagination has to find out what "plastic" means.

我们得找出“停下来“究竟是什么意思,正如读《想象的愉悦》的大人,需要找到“塑料“的意思。

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This will require imagination, creative out-of-the-box diplomacy, and the courage to see it through both from the United States and leaders on the ground.

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