It's what we probably all have heard about and something that I will briefly try to describe, what's called the hermeneutic circle.

也许我们大家都听说过,我会简单介绍一下，那就是所谓诠释循环。

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because what you have to do is you have to describe it to the person you're talking to.

因为你要做的是向正在和你交谈的人描述它。

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That's how this advertisement represents critics, even though it also invokes critics to describe what's powerful about the novel.

这就是广告对批评的描述，尽管如此,它还引述批评家的话来衬托小说的出色之处。

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And I want to describe both the syntax, what we're doing, and then the semantics of how do we use it and what does that mean.

现在我想解释一下语法，我们在做什么,还有我们使用时的符号,以及意义。

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So, we can use Coulomb's force law to think and it does that, it tells us the force is a function of that distance. But what it does not tell us, which if we're trying to describe an atom we really want to know, is what happens to the distance as time passes?

来考虑这两个粒子之间的,它告诉我们力随距离的函数关系,但它不能告诉我们，而我们如果要描述,原子又非常想知道的是,距离随时间的变化时怎样的？

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