来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第11集 第11集》

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  and my wife comes home and I say,
  我妻子回到家 我说
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  "Look what our son built.
  "看看咱儿子的杰作
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  This is the tower that our son built."
  这是他造的塔"
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  Ah, that doesn't sound right.
  听起来不太对哦
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  That's not the tower that our son built.
  那不是我儿子搭的塔
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  That's a tower that I built. This is a duplicate tower.
  而是我搭的塔 只是个复制品
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  Sure, if my son were to wake up and I didn't tell him,
  当然 如果儿子醒后我不告诉他的话
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  he wouldn't know that it was a duplicate.
  他就不会知道那是赝品
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  But when you take a wooden block tower apart
  但当你把构成塔的木块拆开
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  and then put the pieces back together,
  再把它们拼回去
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  piece for piece, duplicate,
  一块一块地复制回去
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  you don't have the very same tower
  你搭出来的与拆开前的