When you think about an int or a float or a dictionary or a list, you knew that there were functions that operated on them.

当你想到整型，浮点型，或者链表时,你知道可以用函数去处理他们,但是当你传递一个参数，例如链表。

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Beethoven was like a military general, interesting the way he operated, always setting up these battles.

贝多芬就像一个军队里的将军,他的指挥很有趣,总是想打仗

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The ancients, he believes, operated with a defective understanding of human freedom.

他认为古人对,何为人的自由的理解是不完整的。

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So, if you imagine this is growing up as the polis comes into being, let me describe what a hoplite was like and then try to describe what the phalanx was like and how they operated and what are some of the consequences of their coming into being.

假设该战术是随城邦的形成而发展起来的,那就让我来描述一下,重装步兵的组成,方阵的组成及其运作方式,包括该战术发展起来之后所产生的影响

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If you see the picture of him here, at the moment when the doctor first removed the cover d been operated.

大家看看这张照片，医生刚一解开,他接受手术的眼睛上纱布的情景，from，the，eye，where，he’

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