We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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Whatever the number two is, it's something that our mind can grasp but isn't actually in the physical world.

不管数字2是什么,它是心灵可以掌握的东西,而在物质世界中却不存在

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It's a difference, or differance, that comes into being precisely in writing, and it's only in writing that we suddenly grasp the twofold nature of differance as difference and deferral.

这是一个差异，或者说是延异，它就是在书写中产生的，而就是在书写中，我们突然掌握到,延异的双重本质，这便是区别和迟延。

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Those of you who know other languages might have in your heads 200,000 words or 300,000 words and you're accessing them in a fraction of a second.

你们当中掌握其他语言的人,可能会在头脑中记住两万到三万个词,你们能在瞬间运用它们

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