He named it after the legendary King of Crete who appears in Greek mythology by the name of Minos.

他以传说中克里特之王的名字为之命名,在希腊神话里,他的名字叫米诺斯

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It doesn't even make sense now, they're not used in spectroscopy anymore, but this is where the names originally came from and they did stick.

现在看它没什么道理，它们在光谱学里也不这么用了，但这些名字,从这里面起源后来就一直沿用下来了。

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One that leaps to mind is-- how do they pronounce it in Turkish?

这就让人疑惑,它们的名字在土耳其语里该怎么读

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It's rather, "Can you imagine a world in which the very thing that you really are picking out when you refer to me by the name Shelly-- namely this thing-- can you imagine a world in which that thing exists, but the thing that you're picking up when you use the word Kagan does not exist?"

而是在于,你能不能想象在一个世界里,你用薛立这个名字,指的那个人,也就是这个东西,你能不能想象在一个世界里某个东西存在,而你用卡根这个词,所指的这个东西却不存在

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