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《老子》第四章 道冲，而用之或不盈。渊兮，似万物之宗；挫其锐，解其纷，和其光，同其尘。湛兮，似或存。吾不知其知谁之子，象帝之先。 【译文】 道是空虚的，象空气，但它被用来给天地万物充气时却似乎有时充不满。它幽深莫测，象是深渊一般的大水，万物的根都来吸取它。道不同于水的性质，挫它它更尖锐好比金属。它又不同于金属，分解它它更纷乱，像是声音越分解越嘈杂一样。你不能唱和道，因为它在不同的时间和地点发出不同的声音，就象光在不同的地点和时间发出不同的颜色一样。同孔实验中它象灰尘，表现形式不同的道不能同时穿过同一个小孔。它不象尘土一样溶于水，道不会使得水更浑浊，它象是一种不改变性质的叫做存的物质。我不知道它是谁的儿子，它产生于现象的初起之前。 The Tao is empty, like air, but when it is used to inflate all things, it sometimes seems dissatisfied. It is deep and unfathomable, like an abyss of water, and the roots of all things absorb it. The Tao is different from the nature of water. It's more sharp than metal. It's different from metal, it's more chaotic, it's like sound is breaking up more and more noisy. You can't sing, because it makes different sounds at different times and places. Just as light produces different colors at different places and times. In the same hole experiment, it looks like dust, and different forms of the Tao cannot pass through the same hole at the same time. It does not dissolve in water like dust, and the Tao does not cause The water is more turbid. It's like a substance called existence that doesn't change its nature. I don't know whose son it was. It was born before the beginning of the phenomenon.