他们被要求去做不可能的事。

They were expected to do the impossible.

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当孩子没有按照老师的要求去做时，父母并不介意老师惩罚他们的孩子。

Parents didn't mind if teachers punished their children when their children didn't do what they were told to do.

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同时，阿里意识到他没有按照母亲的要求去做，并把这件事告诉了他的朋友。

At the same time, Ari realized that he had not done as his mother had asked and told his friends about this.

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More generally speaking, we might say, they're subject to deterministic laws... that, as physical objects, it's true of them that they must do what the laws of physics and laws of nature require that they do.

我们甚至可以这样说,它们受制于决定性的法则,即,作为物理实体,它们必须按照,物理定律和自然法则的要求去做

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