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    July 06

    complicated? complex?

         想必在很多高中生的英语复习资料里,都会有关于“complicated和complex的比较”这样的段落。印象中我也曾经背过,可是现在已经不记得了。
         在数学里,我尚未接触到complicated的概念。而complex指的是被称为复数的一类数字。之所以称这类数为“复”,是因为这类数是两个不同的部分——实部和虚部——的复合体。实的部分老外称之为"real",而虚的部分则被称为"imaginary"。
         复数并不总出现在日常生活中。所以人们一般意义下的数的内涵,仅限于实数的范畴,即复数中“实”的部分。然而,复数也绝不是数学家虚构出来的用以满足个人成就感的假想物。它们确实存在!例如,-1的3个立方根中,有2个就是复数。
         加拿大女歌手艾薇尔的一首歌里,曾表达了女主角对男友为人"so complicated"的抱怨。我了解到原来complicated也可以用来描述人。那么推而广之,与它同时出现在高中英文复习资料里的complex,想来也可拟人了。
         人是实的。身体发肤,三教九流。人也是虚的。思想、意识、谣言、暗剑。所以人是complex的,包括我在内。

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    小溪 魏wrote:
    你说呢
    Nov. 19
    Yajunwrote:
    太复杂了,你说“复杂”这个词,用哪个翻译比较好?
    July 7

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