And the first thing you do is ask is it an instance of some problem that other people have already solved?
而且你以前从没碰过这个问题,你首先要做的一件事就是问问自己,这是不是一个别人已经解决了的问题?
Because it implies that it seems as if the person you are speaking with has never done that thing.
因为你在暗示跟你谈话的人似乎根本没做过那件事。
The passage is also famous because in it Milton does something that he almost never does. Milton has made a mistake.
这篇文章有名也是因为弥尔顿做了一些,他几乎从未做过的事,弥尔顿犯了一个错误。
Remi won't have Dean in the car, so the car drives on. Sal is with a new girlfriend, Laura,about to whom he's told all about Dean.
雷米的车里没有迪安,这辆车开向前方,而萨尔正和一个新的,女友劳拉在一起,曾经萨尔向她讲过所有关于迪安的事。
Jews didn't have to--they could observe the Sabbath, they didn't have to do things on the Sabbath that they didn't want to.
犹太人不必。。。可以过安息日,安息日那天他们不用做不想做的事。
But this case should remind you of something, because this case is one that we've actually discussed before "Methuselah" under the label of "Methuselah."
但这个例子应该让你们想起一件事,因为以前我们曾探讨过这个例子,援引的例子是“
And I put this to Voytek, what dollar figure should be put on human life to decide whether to ban the use of cell phones?
我也问过佛伊泰克,在决定是否禁止使用手机这件事时,人命应该如何定价?
It was the best thing that I could've done.
它是我可能做过的最好的事。
The first, which one finds among manymodern-day commentators, many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them, is to simply avert our eyes from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought and proceed as if he never actually said or meant such things.
第一种是,你在今天随处可见的评论者,多种的新亚里士多德派学者,我们可以这么称呼他们,他们就只是转移我们的目光,不去看亚里士多德想法中刺眼,不讨喜的观点,单纯地以为,他好像从未说过或意指这档事。
And even all the economists agree that most people will just do that and not spend it, There's a... -So you hear about the stimulus package and it neither enourages you nor outrages you You just shrug, and yawn and go on with your life. -Yea.
几乎所有的经济学家都一直认为,大部分人都会这么做,这个,-这么说这项一揽子刺激计划,并不引起你的兴趣,你只是耸耸肩,打个哈欠,事不关己的样子,生活该怎么过还是怎么过,-正是。
I did a performance there for Prince Philip's 75th birthday, which was 15 years ago, actually.
我为菲利普亲王的七十五岁生日表演过,这是十五年前的事了。
Like how can you possibly figure that out with actually compelling a machine to do it for you and sure enough we chatted for a few moments, I kind of gently pointed out well it's kind of like problem 7 last year.
就好像去逼计算机为你做这件事,就能解决问题一样,我们确实谈过这个问题,我委婉地告诉他,这种情况与我们去年讲过问题7类似。
Suppose you are starting a business with somebody-- it could be at any time in history-- Babylonia or something--this must have happened.
假设你要和某人一起做一笔生意...,可以在任何一个时代...,例如古巴比伦或者其他时代...肯定发生过这种事
He was in "On the Waterfront," "In the Heat of the Night," and really bad movies like "Carpool."
他演过“码头风云”“炎热的夜晚”,也演过“乌龙抢匪妙事多”这样的大烂片“
So we can think about something I mentioned last time, which is when we're thinking about chemistry and what's really interesting in terms of chemical reactions, it's mostly valence electrons we're talking about, those are the ones that tend to be involved in chemical reactions.
我们可以考虑一下我上次提到过的一件事,那就是如果我们讨论化学,以及什么是化学反应中,真正令人感兴趣的东西,我们讨论的几乎都是价电子,它们才是在化学反应中,真正起作用的部分。
Yeah, he went to prison for, you know, that thing with the dogs and everything
是,他因为狗的那些事进过监狱,
So by the time it came, more like, by the time I came to meet this random project that was pretty well change where it's making that, you know In terms of managing this whole process, nothing.
因此,当创造Facebook的念头产生的时候,我已经准备充分并且能够实现它了,但我从未想过关于规划整个过程的事。
But just, you know, living a good life, a well-rounded life, doing what I love.
但是,嗯,过好的生活,完整的生活,做我爱做的事。
Owen, they have a mat on a table, and he's sitting there, meditating, did I ever tell you about this?
欧文他们在桌上摆了一张垫子,他就坐在那里,冥想,我说过这件事吧?
On the other hand, if you haven't been keeping up, I hope that you won't pass so I can tell you, look, you have to do things differently.
另一方面,如果你没有继续进行,我希望你不能够过,因此我要告诉你的是,看,你做的事分别很大。
Well, one of the things that they do when the Homeric heroes refer to their wives-- there are really only two places that they seem to be associated with.
其中一件荷马史诗的英雄提到的,他们的妻子所做的事--,似乎她们只过着两点一线的生活
And we said last time we want to do two things.
上次我们说过我们要做两件事。
She says, "What? I haven't heard such a thing." "Are you kidding?"
她说,“什么?我从没听过有这种事,你在开玩笑对吗?”
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing he had forgotten had happened to him.
他有种感觉,觉得他看见的一切都是之前发生过的,他已经忘记的,某件大而无用的事掉落的碎片。
Merritt Hughes usefully notes this in one of the notes at the bottom of the page, that Milton in that line, "things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme," Milton's actually alluding to the opening of another romance epic.
梅里特修斯发现,在这页最下面有一条笔记,显示弥尔顿写到,“在《散文和韵律》中都未被人们尝试过的事“,事实上弥尔顿是暗指另一部浪漫史诗的开头。
One of the things Gandhi said, that he talked about is from his wonderful autobiography, "My experiment with truth"-- " "Be the change you want to see in the world."
甘地说过一件事,出自他的精彩自传,《我的对于真理的实践经历》,“成为你想在世上见到的改变“
I've never done this sort of thing before."
我从来没有做过这事以前“
Just keep doing what I love, you know, surviving and living a good life,
接着做我喜欢做的事,嗯,活下去,过好的生活.
Suppose the planet were hit by a comet-- this happened--something like this happened sixty-five million years ago, so it could happen again.
假设这个星球被一颗彗星击中-,这样的事,大约六千五百万年前,发生过,所以它还可能再发生。
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