The second is something a little more subtle and that is to find different ways to use technologies to basically stretch the boundaries to What it means to learn at MIT.

大学教育水平,第二件重要的事更微妙些,就是去发现不同方式使用技术来伸展,此对于在麻理学习的意义的界限。

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There are a lot of ways in which a red light means neither "stop" nor "go," but we are sort of confining ourselves so far to the ways in which a red light has something to do with locomotion or the lack thereof.

很多时候红灯既不表示停,也不表示走“,但是我们却惯性的认为,红灯就是提示开始或者停止移动。

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So, that means we have to devise ways of sharing with people that we've never met, that we don't care about--I mean, maybe we care about everybody, but we don't have any particular emotional ties to them-- and they're very different people.

那意味着我们必须设计一些方法,使我们与素未谋面的，并不亲近的人们一同分摊风险，也许我们非常博爱，但未必对所有人都会怀有特殊情感-,分摊者应该是与我们非常不同的人。

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I'm going to say, "Ah, this is just what the text means," but at the same time, I'll be finding ways, without realizing it, of affirming certain kinds of meaning and discrediting certain other kinds of meaning -all the while saying, "Oh, it's just meaning. I'm not doing that."

我将会说，“啊哈，这就是作品的意思“,但同时，不必实现它，我会找到方法，来肯定一些意思,并怀疑另一些意思,同时说，“哦，这只是意思而已，我不会做那样做“

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It could be the letter understood either graphically or audibly, and the variety of ways in which one can choose a basic unit in the study of linguistics means that you need a special word for that unit, which is characteristically "the tagmeme."

它既可以以图像的方式理解，也可以以声音的方式，因为每个人研究时选取的,基本的语言学单位不一样,所以需要一个特殊的名词来指代这个单位，这就是，法位“

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