交叉手指的错觉

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Put your fingers across one another like this

把你的手指像这样交叉起来。

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I have my first and second fingers across one another

我的食指和中指交叉在一起。

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Across?

交叉？

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These two lines go across one another

这两条线彼此交叉。

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My second finger is over and across my first finger

我的中指压在食指上，与它交叉。

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These are finger nails

这些是指甲。

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Did you put your fingers across one another?

你把手指交叉起来了吗？

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That is right

对了。

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You have your fingers across one another

你的手指交叉在一起了。

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Now take a pencil and give a touch to one finger

现在拿一支铅笔，碰一下一根手指，

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and then a touch to the other

再碰一下另一根手指，

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and then put the pencil between them

然后把铅笔放在两根手指之间。

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Do this with your eyes shut

闭着眼睛做这件事。

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You will have a strange feeling

你会有一种奇怪的感觉。

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Are two pencils touching your fingers, or is only one pencil touching them?

是两支铅笔在碰你的手指，还是只有一支铅笔在碰它们？

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Do you have the strange feeling that two pencils are there?

你是否有一种奇怪的感觉，好像有两支铅笔在那儿？

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When you are touching one finger only, you seem to be touching the other

当你只碰一根手指时，你却好像在碰另一根。

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Why is that?

这是为什么呢？

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Here is the answer

答案在这里。

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When the fingers are like this, they do their work together

当手指像这样并拢时，它们一起工作。

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But when they are across one another, they do not do their work together

但当它们彼此交叉时，就不再一起工作了。

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Then a touch to one sometimes seems to be a touch to the other

于是碰一根有时会感觉像是碰了另一根。

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What is their work?

它们的工作是什么？

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What do the ends of our fingers do?

我们的手指末端做什么？

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Their chief work is touching

它们的主要工作是触摸。

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Those fingers are touching the cover of a book

那些手指正摸着一本书的封面。

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Touching gives us knowledge

触摸给我们知识。

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When our eyes are shut

当我们的眼睛闭着时，

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or when we are looking in another direction

或者当我们看向别的方向时，

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she is touching the book

（她正摸着那本书，）

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or when we are not able to see

或者当我们看不见时，

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we get knowledge through touching and feeling with our fingers

我们靠手指去触摸和感觉来获得知识。