不存在的东西

To come, then, by the just degrees to the particulars of this partof my story.

呆坐着空想获得不存在的东西是没有用的。

Thought is crooked because it can invent anything and see things that are not there.

思想是扭曲的，因为它总是任意发明和看到根本不存在的东西。

Or should we commit the "essentialist" sin of trying to define deflation out of existence?

还是我们应该去犯下"本质主义者"的罪，将通货紧缩定义为不存在的东西？

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

若想敬仰松树枝干层层为霜雪覆盖，你得具备冬天的头脑。在寒冷中持久凝视，那冰雪蓬松的刺柏丛林，那闪烁在远处腊月阳光下的迷漫云杉。不要去想那风声和树叶夹带着的凄凉。这声音是风地里的声音，这风是为在空地上的你而吹。在雪里聆听的人儿啊，听着与己无关的事儿，那儿不存在的东西看见，眼里只有现存的一片空旷。

From all this it follows that an efficient cause which is first in the unqualified sense of the term can exist of itself, for what does not actually exist of itself is incapable of existing of itself. Otherwise a nonexistent being would cause something to exist; but this is impossible, even apart from the fact that in such a case the thing would be its own cause and hence could not be entirely uncaused.

由此我们可以得出：在非严格意义上的第一性动力因可以自我存在，因为不能真正自我存在的东西不能自我存在，否则非存在将导致某物存在，即使排除事物是它自身的原因因此不可能完全无因而存在，但这也是不可能的。

True language enables us to verbalize about what is not there.

真正的语言使我们能够用词语表达尚不存在的东西。

So I say to you, just imagine there is a pair of crutches.

支撑在一个不存在的东西上是很可悲的。

The instinct of Reason, for its part, rightly holds firmly to this standpoint, and refuses to be led astray by figments of thought which only ought to and, as 'oughts', are credited with truth, although they are nowhere met with in experience; or by hypotheses as little as by all the other invisible entities of a perennial 'ought'.

理性本能之坚持于这一点，那是具有充分理由的；理性本能不为思想里的事物所迷惑，因为思想里的事物仅仅应该存在并且作为应该而应该具有理性，而事实上却并不存在，是在经验里找不到的东西；理性本能决不让自己受各种假设以及从应该里滋长出来的一切其他非现实的东西所误导，因为理性恰恰就是相信自己具有实在这个确定性。（英译 effective 一词有&能产生效果的&这样的含义，贺译&有效率的&则缺少这个含义。

You're destroying your life,your six-year marriage,and you're giving it up for something that isn't even real.

你正在毁掉你的生活，你6年的婚姻，而你丢弃这一切换回来的是根本不存在的东西。

Women have such keen senses they can even smell and hear noises that don't exist.

女人非常敏感，她们甚至能听到和闻到不存在的东西。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。