I read all kinds of remarkable books and yet I can never make out what direction I should take, what it is that I want, properly speaking."

我读过各种各样的名著,但是我还不能决定我接下来要走的方向以及想要追求的东西，以便能得体地讲话“

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Neither do the dealers determine the term structure; the dealers have to buy and sell at prices that are in the market.

中间商也不能决定,中间商只能按照市场价进行交易

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The greatest tragedy of American history arguably is that this struggle could not be decided by debate.

美国历史上最大的悲剧可以说是,这场斗争不能由辩论来决定

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Any belief is heresy if you haven't managed to determine that belief for yourself, if you haven't managed to determine that belief on the basis of your own conscience or through the powers of your own faculty of reason.

任何信念都是异教如果你不能自主决定那个真理,如果你不能决定这个信念,在自己的良心基础上或者是通过自己的推理能力。

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One thing that makes it pretty clear is that certainly delta S or the sign of it alone is not dictating the outcome here.

这个例子非常清楚的说明,熵增dS或者它的符号,不能单独决定最后的结果。

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Suppose we think, "Look, you can't have free will and determinism.

让我们想想看,人不能既有自由意志又遵从决定论

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And going back to your observation you were supporting what the Federal Reserve was doing t count on every individual decision.

那么回到刚才你说到的,支持美联储大幅,我们不能指望任何个人做出的决定，I，wouldn’

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The Fed has these auctions but it auctions them off at what price the public will pay, so the Fed doesn't determine the term structure.

联储局公开拍卖债券,但只有当公众愿意以特定价格支付时,这些债券才能成交,所以联储局不能决定期限结构

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You know that you're not going to decide the election, so what does it matter?

你知道你并不能决定选举结果,那投票还是不投票又有什么关系

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So even if determinism were true of us, that wouldn't rule out our having free will, because you can-- appearances to the contrary notwithstanding-- have both determinism and free will.

所以即使我们真的服从于决定论,那也不能排除我们有自由意志的可能,因为你能,尽管表面看来并非如此,同时遵从决定论和拥有自由意志

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So if we were to spell out the argument somewhat more fully, it might be, "We have free will, but you can't both have free will and be subject to determinism or subject to deterministic laws."

因此我们要更完整地阐述这个论证的话,它应该是,人有自由意志,但人不能既有自由意志,又遵从决定论 或服从确定性的定律

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You can't have determinism and free will.

人不能既服从决定论又有自由意志

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So even if it does turn out that you can't have free will and determinism, that doesn't rule out the possibility that we are purely physical objects, because not all purely physical systems are subject to determinism.

因此即使最终证实,你不能同时拥有自由意志和遵从决定论,也不能排除我们是纯粹,物理实体的可能性,因为并不是所有的纯粹物理系统,都遵从决定论

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If determinism isn't true of us at the fundamental level, then even if you couldn't both have determinism and free will, we could still have free will, and yet, for all that, still be purely physical systems.

如果决定论在基础水平上不适用于我们,那即使你不能,同时遵从决定论和拥有自由意志,我们仍能拥有自由意志,而且,尽管如此,我们仍旧属于纯粹的物理系统

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