The similes enable us to see something about the story that the rest of the poem doesn't enable us to see.
这些明喻使得我们能够深入了解一些,诗歌的剩余部分所不能让我们预见的事情。
If you don't mind, could you tell us about how you met your wife?
如果你不介意,可以告诉我们你是怎么认识你老婆的吗?
You think, some other day, I don't want to talk today about the probability of one of us dying.
你会想,还是改天再说吧,我今天不想讨论家人会有多少可能性会去世
I don't know what this tells us about David and Nina, but don't let them off the hook quite yet.
从大卫和妮娜的协调中得不出什么结论,这事儿还没结束呢
The appeal to intuition, thinking about these cases doesn't seem to take us very far.
思考一下这些案例,诉诸直觉对我们似乎帮助不大。
We've gotten, over the last two decades in particular, very sophisticated about taking pictures inside the body allowing doctors to look inside the body and predict things about our internal physiology that they couldn't predict just by looking at us or putting their hands on us.
特别是在近二十年当中,我们对体内造影已经十分熟悉,它使医生能够看到身体内部,并预测我们体内的生理变化,而仅仅是通过,视诊或者触诊是不能预测这些变化的
So that doesn't make a difference for us when we're talking about neutral atoms, 4s because we would fill up the 4 s first, because that's lower in energy until we fill it, and then we just keep going with the d orbitals.
所以那对我们来说没什么不同,所以当我们讨论中性原子时,因为我们会首先填充,因为在我们填充它之前它的能量都较低,然后我们继续填充d轨道。
They don't make us feel so good about ourselves. Right?
让我们自惭形秽,对吧?
It might be sort of interesting, but it wouldn't tell us something deep about the nature of death, if people could just as easily die on Tuesday.
这也许有趣,但并不能告诉人们关于死亡本质的深刻道理,如果人们就简简单单都死在周二。
But those issues won't concern us in what we're about to turn to.
但这些问题都不影响我们将要关注的东西。
Most of us, when we think about this, find ourselves wanting to say, no, we wouldn't want to have a life on the experience machine.
想到这个问题时,我们中大多数人,都会想说,不,我不想在体验机里生活。
And so what I'm really doing is inviting you to take a good, cold, hard look at death, and to face it and think about it in a way that most of us don't do.
那就是我要你们做的,认清,死亡的好和坏,面对它,然后思考它,用我们从没用过的方式。
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