它就像一切的大熔炉。

It's like a big melting pot of everything.

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我打开它的心脏，取出里面的电子管，修补一切，然后再放回原处。大功告成后，它就能像新的一样运转。

I open its heart, take the valves out, repair any damage, and then put them back in, and when I finish, it works just like new.

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所以即使一则广告表面上看起来很不错，它就像一块宝石：环境决定一切。

So even though an advertisement may look good, it’s like a gemstone: the setting counts.

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The primordial stuff that spawned all that is, spawned it good and bad and exactly as it is, and it's there and it's real.

原始的东西孕育出一切，孕育出善恶,事实上也确实如此，它就在那儿，完全真实。

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When someone gets a gift and the other people at the kibbutz say, "Well you can't have that by yourself, we share everything."

当某人收到一件礼物,农场里的其他人就指责道，你不能把它据为己有，我们必须分享一切“

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So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

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