To use an ancient expression from the 1970's, which only John and I will appreciate, it's really hard to grok what that code is doing, to understand what it's trying to make happen.

我和约翰都会同意，70年代的一句话来概括，那就是很难理解编码的内容，以及它想要完成的工作。

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has directly or indirectly referenced the thing, that you are condensing into a single statement.

直接或间接地表达着一件事情，而你要把这些内容概括成一句话。

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He says--and here's that Yeatsian word "all" again--he says: When I try to put all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."

他说，又是他涵盖一切的词：,当我想用一句话概括时，我说，人可以表现他不理解的真理“

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The idea could be summed up by a quotation from the physicist Wolfgang Pauli.

这种批评可以用物理学家,沃尔夫冈·泡利的一句话来进行概括。

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