Well, the odd thing is it's exactly the same with Saussure, who can be considered the father or patriarch of a certain kind of literary theory as I have just indicated.

索绪尔也是这样，他可以说是,某种文学理论之父了。

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Milton needs to imagine the narrative of the Creation as if the narration itself were taking place in the beginning, as if poetic creation could be a first in the same radical way that the creation of entire universe is obviously a first.

弥尔顿想象的对上帝创造万物的讲述,与上帝创造万物一样发生在太初之时，诗歌创作与整个宇宙的创造,都发生在太初之时。

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So we're going to talk about thinking about the body as a system, as a system that can be understood the same way a motor could be understood or a computer that could be understood.

我们会讲到如何将身体看作系统进行研究,这个系统能够以研究,引擎或计算机的方法进行研究

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It's like you have a social security number or other ID number, which positively--there might be another person with the same name as you, God forbid, but you at least have your own number, which is guaranteed to be unique to you.

就好比社保号,或者其他身份号码,很有可能,有另外一个人,和你重名,希望这不要发生,但你至少有唯一的识别号,用于区分自己和他人

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Remember it's the external pressure that's important. In this case, because it's a reversible process, the external pressure turns out to be always the same as the internal pressure.

是过程非常缓慢,比如我把体积，从V1压缩到V2时，我做得十分缓慢,在过程中的任何一点。

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Maybe A could be the same thing as B in this logically possible world, but we could imagine a completely different logically coherent world in which A was not the same thing as B.

也许在这某个逻辑世界里,A会和B是同一个东西,但我们可以想象,一个完全不同的另一个逻辑世界里,A和B不是同一个东西

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