Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

  • -- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

意义是本质脱离了指称的对象而依附于词时所变成的东西。

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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

忙碌并不总是意味着真正的工作。所有工作的目标都是生产或成就,而要达到其中任何一个目标,都必须有先见之明、系统、计划、智慧、诚实的目标,以及勤奋。表面上做,实际上没有做。

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

事实上,当我开始做这个生意的时候,并不是因为我完全理解这个生意的重要性,而是因为我觉得它很有趣。我发现它令人兴奋。它满足了我,不管我在寻找什么。

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

这个观察的意义尚不清楚,但它提出了一个不幸的可能性,模棱两可的三胞胎;也就是说,三胞胎可以编码不止一个氨基酸。然而,人们肯定会认为这样的三胞胎只占少数。

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

在这个最广泛的对象概念中,特别是在个别对象的概念中,对象和现象彼此对立。