当然，一开始就说太晚了，这是错误的魔术。

Of course this was the wrong Magic—to begin by saying too late.

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因此，让我在讲话一开始就说明一点。

So let me say at this at outset of my remarks.

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安德森一开始就说道：“免费”一词既令人熟悉又极其神秘。

Free is "both a familiar concept and a deeply mysterious one," Mr Anderson says at the outset.

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Does that forces us to say, "Ah, so it's not ?" the same rope at the end as the beginning."

那我们是不是就必须说,“啊，这不是一开始那根绳子了“

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And so he said, if you start off with a male and a female, at the end of one month they have an offspring. Let's assume they have two offspring. At the end of the next month let's assume those offspring have offspring. Again a male and female.

在13世纪的时候想要计算兔子的数量,就是一个月大的兔子,再过一个月就可以进行交配,所以它说如果你一开始有一公一母两只兔子,在一个月末它们就可以生小兔子,让我们假设它们生了两只小兔子。

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I suppose what I'm really saying is that the word "hermeneutics" wasn't available, and the idea that there ought to be a sort of a systematic study of how we interpret things wasn't really current.

我想说的是“诠释学“这个词,不是一开始就有的，而应该系统地学习,如何解释事物,这种思想也当时也是没有的。

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