And then,years ago when I first found out that I was HIV positive, my initial reason for doing glass was I wanted to leave one glass vase for my nephew and nieces to remember their uncle by.

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STUDENT: No. Not unless he wants to break the vase into little pieces and stuff it in the corners.

学生：【听不见】,教授：不，除非它想把花瓶打成碎片,然后把它们堆到角落里。

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Instead of taking that one vase, the thief could take two radios. And get more value. So the greedy thief, in some sense, gets the wrong answer. But maybe isn't so dumb.

这个贼可以带走两个收音机，这样总价值更大，因此这个贪婪的贼,在某种意义上没有得到正确的答案,但是可能它也不笨。

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The Persian infantry did not have heavy armor, they did not have that kind of a shield, they had wicker shields; fortunately, we have vase paintings that show us Persians.

波斯步兵没有重装甲,他们没有那种盾,他们只有藤条盾,很幸运,我们找到了展示波斯人图景的花瓶

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So I'm not going to worry whether this item is a vase or a watch or painting I'm just going to say it's the n'th element.

所以我不用担心这个物品,是花瓶还是手表或者油画,我只要说这是第n个元素就好。

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