It looks like a leaf. It is nature in its aesthetic form as imitation of itself, life as an imitation of life.

它看起来像一片树叶，它是艺术,化的自然，模仿着它自己，用生命模仿生命。

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Skinner, in his book Verbal Behavior, talks about the question of why do we do things like talk to ourselves, imitate sounds, create art, give bad news to an enemy, fantasize about pleasant situations?

斯金纳在其《言语行为》一书中，描述了我们展现各种行为的原因,如自言自语，声音模仿，创造艺术，向敌人散布坏消息，幻想美好情景等等？

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But for Hobbes, think of this by contrast, art does not so much imitate nature, rather art can create a new kind of nature, an artificial nature, an artificial person, as it were.

但是霍布斯不一样，他认为艺术并不是自然的模仿物，不如说艺术可以创造一种新式的自然，人造的自然，就像人的创造。

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