The simple reason is that there is this scenario prevailing now, what we witnessed in 2008 when Lehman Brothers went bust.

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For the simple reason that the number of possible chess games is so huge, that computers can't calculate it.

原因很简单,棋局的潜在变数相当之大,以至于计算机根本无法将其完全计算出来

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It's going to be cancelled next year. I won't get my money back.' Loans must be made even if the debt will be cancelled, for the simple reason that the problem of poverty is a terrible and persistent problem.

因为在来年贷款会被解除，他们就收不回自己的钱了,即使是债务会被免除，人们也必须给人借贷，这仅仅,是因为贫困是一个长久存在的可怕问题。

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A theodicy can be seen as heretical or even blasphemous for the simple reason that it -- think of what it assumes.

斯奥迪斯会被看作是异端思想甚至是亵渎上帝,原因很简单--想想斯奥迪斯假定了什么。

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The other reason we teach it here, in addition to it being simple, is that it's incredibly useful.

这种思想的原因之一，另一个原因,是除了简单它还十分有用。

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Reason is not about simple observation, but rather, it is about making, production, or as he says, " "making like consequences produce the desired effects."

理性并不是单纯的观察，它是创造，制造，像他说的，“使它产生我们想要的结果“

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There's a very simple reason why real estate tends to be held in limited partnerships rather than corporations and that reason is the corporate profits tax.

人们之所以,通过有限合伙的形式来持有商业房产,而不是以公司的形式来持有商业房产,其原因非常简单,那就是公司利润税

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But that merging process only takes N steps, N*log N so that's N times log of N. Now, it's a little tricky to reason through this perhaps the first time, let's just take a very simple example and see if we can do a little sanity check here.

但这个合并过程只需要N步，所以时间复杂度是,第一次对此进行推论可能会有点儿棘手，我们举一个简单的例子,看看我们能否做一些完整性的检查。

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