它们只是向我们展示它们认为我们在想些什么，其根据就是我们和像我们一样的其他人以往喜欢和想要东西。

They're designed to give us what they think we want, based on what we and other people like us have wanted in the past.

youdao

我想没有哪个做父母的能够完全知道他们的孩子在想些什么，但是我们在知道这一切之前都没什么偏见。

I guess no parent can know entirely what their children are thinking, but I am keeping an open mind until we know it all.

youdao

我们把字母写得向后倒是因为我们对其他人的看法并不关心，我们不会在乎女服务员会想些什么。

We draw the letter backwards because we don't care about the viewpoint of others. We don't give a shit what the maid thinks.

youdao

So, we can think about what would happen if we're on his thesis defense, we're on his thesis committee, we would need to think of some pretty mean, hard, nasty questions that's what happens when you defend your thesis.

所以，我们可以设想一下,如果我们在他的论文答辩会上,担任论文委员会的成员，那么会发生些什么，我们会想一些非常严厉的,冷酷无情的，险恶的问题,那也是你们在论文答辩时,会遇到的情况。

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