The Chicago left hander said that he had a tough time grasping the significance of his achievement.

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I met a lot of people there and I never once got the idea that anyone there was evil or grasping.

在那我见了很多人,但是我没有察觉到,任何恶毒或者贪婪的气息。

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We don't have an enormous difficulty grasping them, and it doesn't seem to me that our capability of grasping irony is founded on a necessary, underlying agreement.

我们在理解时不会用很大困难，而且我认为，我们理解讽刺的能力,是建立在必要的，潜在的共识之上的。

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The child starts off grasping the world only in a physical way, in a sensorimotor way, but when he gets to the preoperational period, the capacity to represent the world, to have the world inside your head, comes into being.

开始的时候,儿童只能通过生理的方式,通过感知运动的方式,来认识世界,但是当儿童进入了前运算阶段,他们便逐渐拥有了表征事物,在头脑中构建世界的能力

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If we give him number two, it's going to follow that whatever's doing the grasping-- call that the soul since the soul is just Plato's word for our mind-- if whatever's doing the grasping of the eternal and non-physical forms must itself be eternal and non-physical, it follows that the soul must be non-physical.

假如我们承认前提二,那么接下来就是不管是什么事物在认知,姑且称之为灵魂好了,因为灵魂是柏拉图对我们心灵的称呼,假如能够认知永恒,和非现实型相的事物本身必须是,永恒和非现实的,那么灵魂必须是非现实的

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Continue the passage: "This grasping which is free of the 'as' is a privation of the kind of seeing because he shifts his rhetoric] in which one merely understands."

继续看文章：,这种没有先入之见的解读是,不存在理解的，大家可以看出海德格尔为之深深吸引了,因为他改变了修辞“

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