Recognizing fine patterns, and you have in fact a very specialization of your brain in the centre called the fovea.

识别精细图案，实际上你的大脑中心,有一个叫做中央凸的部具有特殊的作用。

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Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

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Enzymes work best, enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions and our bodies operate by elaborate networks of chemical reactions, When we're off from that temperature then they don't work properly.

举酶这个例子再好不过,酶是一种具有催化作用的蛋白质,人体依靠精密复杂的化学反应网络来运转,如果我们体温与之相差较大,这些酶就不能正常工作

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Hobbes gives us the definitive language of the modern state.

他对我们如何理解现代国家,具有决定性作用。

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So we learned the very first time that in the Prisoner's Dilemma communication per se won't help, but in the coordination problem, which could be just as serious socially as a Prisoner's Dilemma, in a coordination problem it may well help.

在第一讲里我们就学到了,在囚徒困境中沟通不起作用,但是在和囚徒困境具有,同样重要社会意义的协和谬误中,交流却能够起到作用

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Conversely, if you get an answer and it doesn't seem to make sense, then you've got to go back and ask, am I violating some of the assumptions, and here you will find the assumption that the particle had that acceleration a is true as long it's freely falling under gravity but not when you hit the ground.

反过来说,如果你得到一个结果,发现似乎是错的,那么你就应该回过头来问问自己,我是不是违反某些前提了,这个模型中,你就发现,只要质点在重力作用下自由下落,质点具有加速度a的前提是正确的,但是落地后就不成立了

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In other words, poetry is capable of doing now what religion used to do.

也就是说，今天的诗歌具有从前的宗教的作用。

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