I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.

和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了，就像我写的东西必须是事实，不能虚构，但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象，去创作。

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I would imagine the job will take about two days.

我猜想这工作大概需要两天左右的时间吧。

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I should imagine it will take about three hours.

我想得用差不多三个小时吧。

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From what we know about a man like Murlock, we may try to imagine some of the details of the story told by my grandfather.

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If the mind is just a way of talking about the body, how could I imagine the mind without the body?

如果心灵只不过是身体的另一种说法,我怎么能独立于身体想象心灵呢

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So although of course it's true, when I imagine these various possibilities without me, I'm thinking about them. I'm observing them.

所以即便真的，当我想象这些没有我存在的可能的时候，我同时也在观察着这些可能。

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Take the heated emotional debate going on in this country about immigration and imagine it on the global stage.

NPR: U.N. Puts Spotlight on Global Immigration

What has kept the two sides at the table so far is that success is just about possible to imagine.

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My own beef with him is, as you might imagine, about economics, the core of my interests.

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