No. That's completely the wrong way to go about thinking what it's like to be a ball point pen.

并不是，这样想象圆珠笔的感觉,是完全错误的。

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And I try to imagine, well, first, imagine being really, really stiff, because you're not flexible when you're a ball point pen.

让我试着想象，首先，想象自己变得非常僵硬，因为圆珠笔是不会动的。

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Imagine that I try to ask myself, "What's it like to be my ball point pen?"

想象一下我试问自己，作为我的圆珠笔的感觉“

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There's nothing that it's like to be a ball point pen.

圆珠笔是没有感觉的。

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