First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

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