It's not a good thing if you're just looping and checking some condition, but never actually changing the state of the world.

这不是一个好事情，如果你只是循环,检查一些条件，但是永远不要改变世界上的国家。

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And small is not derogatory here, by the way, it just says the size of things you're going to be able to do.

顺便一提，这里的小并不是贬义，只是代表你有能力做的,事儿的规模而已。

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Setting yourself up before the fact so that you can win an argument after the fact, so that you didn't--you just got unlucky.

在事实发生之前先给自己预设一下结局,你就能在事实发生之后赢得一场争论，所以你并不是不能做到-，只是不走运而已。

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You--By not randomly assigning people to these two conditions, you may be capturing just individual differences in the kind of person who, when there's a perfectly stable, safe, low bridge, says, "Huh uh. I won't want to go on that bridge.

如果两种情况下的受试者不是随机安排的，或许你所捕捉的,只是一类人中的个体差异，这类人，当看到一个更稳定，更安全，更低的桥，会说，“啊哈，我不走那座桥。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You're going to know more details about it, they're not really colors, they're chemicals, specific chemicals - but the pattern is the same.

通过它,你可以知道更多,DNA不是真有颜色 它们只是化学物质,特殊的化学物质,不过模式是一样的

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In a high-level language, square root might simply be a primitive that you can use rather than you having to go over and code it.

一个高级的语言，平方根可能仅仅,只是你能使用的一个基本要素,而不是你需要去编译它。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If you have your health, luck comes and goes and realize when you're doing really well that it's not just you. Then, when you're not, it's not just you either.

如果你很健康而且运气来来去去,当你做的很出色的时候你意识到不只是你很出色,当你不是很出色的时候，也不仅仅是你自己做的不好。

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