And you can amuse yourself as you're driving along, saying, "Well, that guy from Chateauroux is off to visit his cousin in Besancon."

假设你自己正一个人开车行驶,这个来自沙特路的人要去探望在贝桑松的表兄

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cause I go to 68th and it's straight road. They can just make it all the way if they want.

因为我去的是第68大街，从这儿开始都是一条直路，他们可以把自行车道一直修到底，如果他们想这么做。

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I'm a Yale college student, for the purposes of this thought experiment and I live in Pierson because I need to walk a great distance to Chapel Street, to the Starbuck's on Chapel Street.

我是一个耶鲁的学生，出于实验的需要,我住在皮尔逊校园里,我需要走很远的路去新教堂街，去新教堂街上的星巴克店。

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Here are humans who had to walk long distances potentially to find the food, kill the food at great risk to themselves; inspiring a cascade of physiological effects that have to do with fear and arousal and things like that, not to mention all the calories one would burn doing this kind of activity.

这些人可能需要走很远的路,去寻找食物,冒着巨大危险,杀死猎物,人们耗费能量以激活一系列生理效应,用以战胜恐惧,引发斗志,更不用说人们在狩猎的过程中,消耗的卡路里量了

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The reason--unless you can take about eight hours to do it--because, the way you're going to do it is you're going to take a train that goes one hour and fifty-eight minutes to Paris, and then you're going to take another train that zips down here in about four hours to Bordeaux, but you're paying by kilometer.

除非你想坐八个小时的火车,因为,你要走的路是,坐上火车,先花一小时五十八分钟去巴黎,然后以很快的速度用四小时到这儿,波尔多,按公里计费

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选