That is the fundamental idea that may seem simple and obvious to you, but it certainly wasn't back when the idea first came up.

刚才讲的就是最基本的概念,可能看起来比较简单明显,但这些概念刚出现时并不被广泛理解

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There may be uncertainties of that nature but certainly not the uncertainties of early humans.

也许还有其他的不确定因素,但这绝不等同于早期人类的不确定因素

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It's a problem if we reject the police-like authority of authors, of whom we may have a certain suspicion on those grounds, when we certainly don't feel that way about Marx and Freud.

但若我们并不喜欢马克思和弗洛伊德，那么如果我们排斥警察，就好像因为对作者有所怀疑，而排斥作者权威的话，就有问题了。

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That may make sense for some organizations, Certainly the open university in UK was founded on That as their basic model. But given MIT's course Strength and core abilities, we decided that what'll Make sense is to focus on two major things.

那对于一些机构是有意义的，比如英国的开放大学就,建立在这个基础模型上,而鉴于麻理优势和核心能力,我们决定要注重两件事。

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This almost certainly is not the right story but again, just as in phobias, some ideas of classical conditioning may play some role in determining what we like and what we don't like sexually.

这个解释肯定是错的,但是，与在恐惧症中的作用相同，经典条件作用,或许对我们在性活动方面的喜恶,起着一定的决定作用。

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Sometime later, I will deal with functions of more than one variable, which I will briefly introduce to you, because that may not be a prerequisite but certainly something you will learn and you may use on and off.

再过段时间,我要开始处理多变量函数,到时候我会向你们进行简单介绍,因为那不是必须的,但是你们以后会学到,有时候还能派上用场

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Here's one, "It is clear that the emergence of the hoplite was only the beginning of a lengthy process which certainly lasted more than a century, and may have lasted more than two centuries, leading to the creation of a close ordered hoplites only phalanx.

他说道,"很显然重装步兵的出现,仅仅是漫长战争史的开端,持续了多达一个世纪,甚至可能超过两个世纪,漫长的战争造就了列阵严整的重步兵方阵

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