我们之所以要学习外语，是因为它们已成为引进先进思想和科学技术的媒介。

The reason why we should learn foreign languages is that they have become a vehicle for bringing in advanced ideas, science and technology.

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先进的监测技术使科学家们能够看到当你真的每天下午听妈妈的话，练习一小时小提琴时，你大脑里发生了什么。

Advanced monitoring techniques have enabled scientists to see what happens inside your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon.

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1996年，科学家用先进的技术重复了同样的实验，也证实了该理论，时间差距甚至更大了。

The experiment was replicated in 1996 with advanced technology， and it was proved againwith an even bigger time difference this time.

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And the engineering part of that is sort of the part that I talked about in one slide, when I talked about how do you convert this scientific advance into something that can be delivered all over the world.

这其中的工程部分就是,我曾经在一个幻灯片中讲过的,在我讲到,如何将先进的科学技术成果转化为,可以在世界范围传播的东西

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