It has been said that Napoleon was successful because he knew the field position of every one of his guns.
VOA: special.2009.11.01
So right now,let's imagine two people with Napoleon's personalities, complete personalities,one of them in Michigan,one of them in New York.
那么现在试想一下,有两个人拥有拿破仑的人格,完整的人格,一个在密西根,一个在纽约。
Well,I suppose another possibility is to say, at least another possibility worth mentioning, is to say they're both Napoleon.
我想另一个可能性会是,至少这种可能性值得一提,那就是他们两个都是拿破仑。
During his administration, he got Napoleon the third of France to withdraw French forces from Mexico.
VOA: special.2010.02.11
And he'd never,rather like Louis-Napoleon, had hardly ever been in Paris before; he really hadn't,I don't think,ever.
他不像路易·拿破仑,以前很少到过巴黎,他是从来没去过
Like her series about Napoleon, the President Lincoln stories were immediately popular.
VOA: special.2010.04.25
Napoleon, who was always considered to be kind of a dwarf, a midget, really wasn't at all.
拿破仑被人们公认为是个矮子,夸张点叫侏儒 实际上并非如此
So imagine that there's right now somebody in an insane asylum in Michigan who's got the thought,I am Napoleon.
因此想像一下,现在有个家伙,在密西根一家精神病院,认为自己就是拿破仑。
Yet,the personality theory,the objection says, would tell us that he is Napoleon because he's got the beliefs of Napoleon.
然而,人格理论,会告诉我们他是拿破仑,因为他拥有拿破仑的信念。
So here we've got the continuing,evolving over time-- this is all taking place in France-- the personality of Napoleon in France.
所以这是持续的,随时间进化的…,这都是发生在法国-,法国拿破仑的人格。
A Napoleon who was in one place in France and is now simultaneously in two places in the U.S.
曾在法国某地的一个拿破仑,现在同时出现在美国两个地方。
The objection then says even if this guy had all of Napoleon's memories, beliefs,desires,personality,still wouldn't be Napoleon.
然后反对者又说,即使这家伙拥有拿破仑的所有记忆,信念,欲望和人格,他依然不是拿破仑。
One belief,even one very unusual belief's not enough to make somebody Napoleon, according to the personality theory.
仅仅一个信念,即使与众不同,也不足以使某人为拿破仑,人格理论是这么说的。
Okay,so here was Napoleon back in France with his memories and his beliefs and so forth and so on.
这是在法国的拿破仑,拥有他的记忆,信念等等的东西。
The body of Napoleon is not this body and to be Napoleon, you've got to have Napoleon's body.
拿破仑的肉体不是这具,而要成为拿破仑,你必须拥有拿破仑的肉体。
If you want to say,no,no,no,those memories are illusions, it must be because you don't think he's really Napoleon.
假如你说,不,那些记忆都是错觉,那是因为你不认为他是真的拿破仑。
Now,we imagine in our new version of the worry somebody with Napoleon's personality over here in New York.
现在我们再设想另一个疑虑,拥有拿破仑人格的某人出现在纽约。
Saying that one of them is Napoleon and the other one isn't seems very hard to believe.
说其中一个是拿破仑,另一个不是拿破仑,似乎都难以令人信服。
So there was Napoleon in the 1800s conquering Europe and being crowned emperor, being defeated by the British,being sent to exile on,was it Elba,right?
拿破仑在1800年代征服欧洲,被加冕为皇帝,被英军击败,然后被放逐于厄尔巴岛?
If it's got Napoleon's memories,beliefs,desires,goals, and so forth and so on,wouldn't we say it's Napoleon?
如果他有拿破仑的记忆,信念,欲望,目标,诸如此类的东西,我们难道不认为他是拿破仑?
To be Napoleon,you've got to have the very same overall personality, which is a very big,complicated set of beliefs and desires and ambitions and memories.
要成为拿破仑,你必须拥有完全一样的整体人格,那是一整套庞大复杂的信念,欲望,抱负和记忆组合。
If he had all of that,it's not so clear to me that it would be the wrong thing to say that, by golly,this is Napoleon.
如果他都拥有这些,那我就不太确定,这么说是否错误了,天哪,这是拿破仑。
But when splitting into two, he split on to two bodies,but they are both Napoleon.
但在分成两个的时候,他分到了两具肉体上,同时都是拿破仑。
All right,saying that Napoleon is in Michigan but not New York doesn't seem very attractive.
说拿破仑在密西根,而不在纽约,这似乎不太有吸引力。
You could match the personality as much as you want, but it's still not Napoleon.
你想匹配多少人格都可以,但他仍旧不是拿破仑。
Well,I suppose one possibility would be to say the guy in New York is Napoleon.
我猜其中一个可能性会是,纽约家伙是拿破仑。
And I said I was willing to entertain the possibility that this is all Napoleon.
我说过我乐意接受,这些都是拿破仑的可能性。
And I forget where Napoleon actually dies, but he's got memories of getting sick and ill and the light begins to fade and he goes unconscious.
我不记得拿破仑在哪里去世了,但他有生病的记忆,生命之光慢慢变弱,然后失去了意识。
But now we've got people that are not Napoleon but they've got Napoleon's personality.
但现在有人不是拿破仑,而他们拥有拿破仑的人格。
Imagine that--back to this earth-- this Napoleon type of case happened all the time.
我们回到地球上-,假设这种拿破仑案例时常发生。
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