It doesn't really matter as long as we're comfortable talking about entire space-time worm, the car and the slices, or the stages.

只要我们接受,它整个是条时空虫,可以接受它的切分，阶段,这样就可以了。

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I really need to get a car by next week. I need it for work.

我下周得买辆车。我得开车去上班。

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What's really prior is the car itself and talking about car stages is a certain convenience a kind of way of chopping up the fundamental thing of the car.

重要的是,汽车本身,谈论阶段只是提供便利,是一个把基本部分,切分开的方法。

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Maybe you want to get a really old car and show people that you take really good care of it (a more subtle signal, but an interesting one).

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