You have to jump through hoops just to ask the user for a piece of input which should be really the thing a language prioritizes.

你要百依百顺才能从用户那里得到一个输入,这个输入可能只是一个,语言优先级。

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This chart, very boring and uninteresting but useful to say there are very well defined rules as to when you're writing code, what operators, like what syntax should get evaluated first.

这个图表，看起来很烦，很无趣，但是它很有用,有非常明确的规定,譬如，当你写代码时，就会涉及操作符的优先级。

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The first is this, that emotions are basically mechanisms that set goals and priorities and we're going to talk a lot about in this class and the next class about universals.

首先，情感是基本机制,设定目标及事务优先级,我们将谈论很多关于宇宙的话题,在这堂课和下堂课。

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Now downside of this, well, I've just now violated my preference for having main up top, maybe that's forgivable.

现在在后面，我违反了把main函数放在上面的优先级,可能那是可以宽恕的。

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Your desire to come to class to study, to go out with friends, to read a book, to raise a family, to be--to do anything are priorities set by your emotions.

你想要到教室学习，跟朋友一起出去，读书，抚养家庭，你所做任何事情的优先级由情感设定。

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Emotions set goals and establish priorities.

情感可设定目标并区分事务优先级。

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And so similarly as Gmail's priority inbox, it's gonna be pretty flawed for a lot of us at least initially because it just doesn't know the answers a priori correctly unless we teach it or program it to be better. There is also another flaw in here or multiple flaws arguably.

类似于Gmail的优先收件箱，在起初使用时对大多数人来说它是有缺陷的,因为它不知道如何正确判断优先级,除非我们事先告诉它或编写程序改良它,另外这里存在一个或多个漏洞，可以说是缺陷。

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