来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第10集 第10集》

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  and talking about car stages is a certain convenience,
  而谈论汽车的各个阶段只是为图方便
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  a kind of way of chopping up the fundamental thing, the car.
  这样可将基本物体即汽车 切分开来
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  So, to use an analogy that I think David Kaplan,
  因此 用加州大学洛杉矶分校的哲学家
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  a philosopher at UCLA offers,
  提出的比喻来说
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  it's as though you have to think of
  你可以将其想象成
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  it more like a bologna or salami that you can slice.
  一根能够切片的大腊肠或意大利肠
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  If--For certain purposes you can talk about slices,
  某些情况下你可以谈论它的切片
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  but the fundamental thing's the salami. All right.
  但根本上它还是意大利腊肠
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  In thinking about cars,
  说到车
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  should we say
  我们是否该说
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  that the fundamental thing
  构成汽车的基本要素
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  is the car stages
  是它所处的各个阶段