But it's a good story, Joule decided that there must be a direct relationship between work and heat.

所以说，这只是一个不错的故事而已，焦耳认为功和热之间,一定具有某种直接的联系。

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I think there's a simple story which is very different from what's causing the current apparently current recession.

我认为这里有一个简单的故事，一个不同于,现在的经济衰退的故事，导致现在这个危机。

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And this is actually, in general, why it's sometimes difficult to teach or to tell stories because we constantly overestimate how much other people know.

概而论之，这就是为什么有时候我们很难能讲一个故事,因为我们总是认为别人什么都猜到了。

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That little story I told last time, I thought I was describing a world in which my mind exists and my body doesn't, but it wasn't really imagining a world like that.

我上次讲的那个小故事,我认为我在描述一个,我的心灵存在,但身体不存在的世界,而不是真的想象出那样一个世界

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Then on the other hand, at the other extreme, you have scholars who see the patriarchal stories as entirely fabricated retrojections of a much later age. And they vary significantly as to when they think these stories were written: anywhere from the period of the monarchy all the way down to the fourth century, some of them.

另一方面又是另一个极端，有学者认为族长故事完全是后世编造的,这样一来，对这些故事是什么时候写的,也有巨大的分歧：,其中一些人认为是在从君主制时期,到公元4世纪之间的某段时候。

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