我们在很多方面上都很熟悉“猴子”，它们大部分有十个指头，并且有和我们类似的大脑。

Monkeys are very similar to us in many ways. Most have ten fingers and ten toes, and brains much like ours.

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这样，在“我有十个指头”这一陈述里比起在“这是红的”这样的一种陈述里来，知觉就占有更少的地位，而概念则占有更多的地位。

Thus in the statement "I have ten fingers" perception plays a smaller part, and conception a larger part, than in such a statement as "this is red."

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不过，他要是没给你打电话，对不起了，这可不是因为他的十个指头在一场稀奇古怪短信意外中“光荣挂彩”了，也不是因为他倒在某个犄角旮旯里不省人事了。

Sorry but if he's not calling you it's not because all of his fingers were chopped off in a freak text messaging accident or he's lying in a coma somewhere.

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