首先是纽约这座城市，在这里出生的男男女女们认为这座城市的存在是理所当然的，认为城市的规模和动荡都是自然形成的，是必定会发生的事情。

There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable.

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那是必定要发生的。

It will happen, as sure as a gun.

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幸运的是这一幕没有在公开演出中发生，否则听众必定又要大笑不止了。

Fortunately this scene did not take place at the public performance, otherwise the audience would certainly have laughed again.

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When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

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