The writers on the syllabus consistently try to imagine a way to make those claims, make those claims for the primacy and the importance of what they do.

大纲里的作家一直在尝试,设想出一种方法来提出要求，把他们写的书放在首要地位,使他们的要求得到重视。

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We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

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Suppose now--harder to imagine, but let's try it-- suppose now that you are an indignant angel and you're playing against, and you know this, you're playing against an evil git.

假设你是一个愤怒天使,我知道这个对你们来说很难,但你现在知道你要和,一个自私鬼博弈

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I won't think anything. And you try to imagine what it's like to not think or feel or hear or see.

无法思考，请试着想象一下,无法思考或感觉或听或看的感觉。

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Try to imagine-- can you do that or can you not do that?-- try to imagine a round square.

试着去想象,你可不可以这样,试着去想象一个圆的方形

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But try to imagine a world in which the Evening Star exists, but the Morning Star does not.

但是尝试想象在一个世界里昏星存在,而晨星不存在

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If you try to imagine a smile with no body at all, it can't be done. Why?

如果你要相信一个没有身体的微笑,那是根本做不到的 为什么呢

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Look. Suppose we try to imagine a world in which Shelly exists but Kagan doesn't.

设想在某个世界里面,薛立存在而卡根不存在

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Freud says, After all, one's own death is beyond imagining, and whenever we try to imagine it we can see that we really survive as spectators.

弗洛伊德说，说到底，人自己的死亡都是无法想象的，无论何时要想象,都会发现自己依然作为观察者存活着。

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Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

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Try to imagine my mind," Says Descartes, "Without my body."

试着不通过身体,笛卡尔说道,来想象我的心灵

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Try to imagine, try to picture that meeting without you.

试试想象一下，你不在时举行的会议。

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You can try to imagine it.

你可以尝试想象

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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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Because when I try to imagine a world in which I'm dead, I smuggle myself back in.

因为当我想象自己死后的世界时，会再度将自己带入其中。

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When you try to imagine your being dead, you smuggle yourself back in as a spectator.

当你想象自己的死亡时，都是将自己作为旁观者重新带入。

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Try to imagine a world in which somebody's smile exists but their body doesn't.

试图想象一个世界里某人的微笑存在,而身体不存在

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When we think of the kinds of examples of material machines that we've got available to us in the fourteenth century, I try to imagine what would somebody in the fourteenth century think to himself or herself when he entertains the possibility that a plant might just be a machine?

当我们回想14世纪时期的,各种机器,我试着想象,一个生活在14世纪的人,他,或她,在面对一株植物可能,只不过是一台机器的观点时会怎么想

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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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