来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第6集 第6集》

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  Things can partake of them.
  事物可以分有它们
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  If I were to hold up two pieces of paper,
  如果我拿起两张纸
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  there's a sense in which
  便有这样一层含义 即
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  they are participating in "Twohood."
  这两张纸分有了 二性
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  But of course, this is not the number two here.
  但显然 数字2并不在这里
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  If I were to rip these pieces of paper,
  要是我把这些纸撕碎
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  I wouldn't be destroying the number two.
  数字2并没有被我给损毁了
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  So the number two, the numbers, three,
  因而 数字2 数字3
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  whatever it is, whatever they are,
  不管它们是什么
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  are these Platonic abstract entities
  至少它们都是不存在于时空中的
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  that don't exist in space and time.
  柏拉图式的抽象实体
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  Yet, for all that,
  尽管如此