In people with MS, when nerve signals reach a damaged area, some of the signals are blocked or delayed from traveling to or from the brain.

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Now, these comments, frankly, are brain-damaged, or computationally challenged if you prefer.

现在，这些注释，实在点说，没什么用，或者说是对计算有挑战的,如果你喜欢这么说的话。

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It's very deep within the brain and if it gets damaged you could— you are likely to die.

延脑位于大脑深处,如果它受到损伤的话,你可能会,你很可能会死掉

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OK. Having said that, let's look at doing some sorts. And I'm going to start with a couple of dumb sorting mechanisms. Actually, that's the wrong way saying it, they're simply brain-damaged, they're not dumb, OK?

我们来做些排序吧,我要开始处理一些愚蠢的排序机制,事实上，我说的不正确，他们就是没脑子，不是笨,发明出来后，他们就在不停的被挑战？

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To some interesting sense, there's some sort of damage resistance built in to the brain that allows different parts of the brain to take over if some parts are damaged.

从某种程度上来说,这就像是在大脑中建立起了某种损伤防护,如果某些脑组织受到了损伤,那么这种防护可以保证其他脑组织,担负起损伤组织的功能

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And if parts of these brains--if parts -if these parts of the brain are damaged you get language deficits or aphasias where you might lose the ability to understand or create language.

如果这些脑区,如果这些脑区受到损伤,那就会患上各种语言障碍或失语症,就是说可能会失去理解或创造语言的能力

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Again, it's not paralysis, it's not blindness, but due to certain parts of your--of damaged parts of your brain, you might lose, for instance, the idea that there's a left side of your body or a left side of the world.

我重申,这不是生理瘫痪,不是失明,但是由于大脑特定部区域的损伤,举例来说,你可能会失去对身体左半部分的感知,或是对身体左侧外部世界的感知

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