Well, you'll know when it crashes, that doesn't help you very much, but you can't always tell whether something's stuck in an infinite loop or whether it's simply taking a long time to compute.

好，你将学到它在什么时候会崩溃，这对你帮助并不大，但是你不能辨别出到底是在一个循环中,有什么东西卡住了呢,还是程序需要很长的时间来计算一个结果呢。

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What we do is speak, and when we speak, of course, we say correctly that we "use" language, but we still need to know what language is and we need to understand the relationship between language and speech.

我们所说的，我们什么时候说，当然，说我们这是在使用语言，但是我们仍然要理解语言到底是什么,我们要理解语言和话语的关系。

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We're trying to understand exactly what changes in your brain when you learn and how those changes persist over time to support memory. And one thing that we know which helps explain why some things are easier to remember than other is that learning is not a unitary process.

我们一直都想查明，学习的时候，大脑到底发生了什么变化，这些变化是如何长时间控制记忆的,我们都知道，学习的过程不是一元化的,这就是为什么有的东西好记，有的东西难记。

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Still, that's not a world in which the Morning Star doesn't exist, given that what we mean by the Morning Star is that heavenly object, whatever it is, that in this world we pick out at that time in the morning looking up at the sky.

但这并不是意味着,晨星在这个世界不存在,如果给定了晨星的意思就是,一个这样的天体,不管它到底是什么,在这个世界上,在早晨的那个时候我们仰望天空,就能看到的那个天体

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