翻譯壹段話。謝謝

What we should use when we mean “are unable to” or “are not permitted to” is one word: cannot. This is the word that we contract when we write “can’t.” It is a common error to separate “can” and “not.” The American Heritage Dictionary is quite clear on this point: cannot is the negative form of the word can.

當我們想要表達“沒有能力做”或是“不被允許做”的意思時，我們都用到了壹個詞是“cannot”。也就是我們經常縮寫成為“can't”。很多人喜歡把can 與 not 分開寫，但其實這是壹個普遍的錯誤。《美國傳統詞典》中對於這壹點的解釋相當明確：cannot這個單詞，是can的否定形式。

Here’s one example I use:

If I say “I cannot smoke,” I mean that I am unable to or not permitted to smoke. If I say, “I can not smoke,” not modifies smoke. My meaning is: “I am able to not smoke,” i.e., I have the ability to avoid smoking, to prevent myself from smoking, or to stop smoking.

可以舉這樣壹個例子：

如果我說I cannot smoke，我的意思是，我不會抽煙，或者，這裏不讓抽煙。

如果我說I can not smoke，這時，not就是修飾smoke的，那麽這句話的意思其實是：我可以不抽煙。就好比，我有能力讓自己克制吸煙，或者我可以戒煙。

Another example:

If I am unable to go or am not permitted to go, I should write, “I cannot go.” If I have a choice between going and not going, I may write, “I can go, or I can not go – it is my choice.”

另外壹例：

如果我去不了某處，我會寫：I cannot go；

而當我可以去，可以不去的時候，我才可能會寫：I can go, or I can not go——這是我的選擇自由。

To all my fellow nitpickers out there: I am fully aware that the two-word construction “can not” is often used where the opposite of “can” is intended. Despite the ubiquity of this usage, it is still an error.

致我的所有喜歡“吹毛求疵”的朋友們：

我非常清楚這壹點：

在很多時候本來應該使用單詞[can]的否定式[cannot]的時候，往往人們卻使用了兩個單詞構成的詞組[can not]。

即使這樣的用法遍天都是，但是事實仍然是：它是錯誤的。