数字三也不是一个物理实体

The number three is not a physical object.

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我们可与去探讨，二加一等于三的这个事实，但是我们不可能有一天真的碰到数字，在现实世界中碰到个叫“数字三”的东西。

We are able to talk about the fact that two plus one equals three, but it's not as though we ever come across Numbers — number three itself — anywhere in the empirical world.

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We'll also, when we grade the concept sheets, we'll give them number grades and we'll just do one, two, or three.

我们也会,在我们给观点报告评分时,我们会以数字一,二,三来打分

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We have to add it all up so it's not just numbers, three against one; it's also all of those people at home.

得把这些加起来考虑,所以就不只是这个数字，三比一;,还要加上这三人的家人。

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Nothing that happens here on Earth can change or alter or destroy the number three.

在地球上发生的任何事都不能,改变或者消灭数字"三"

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