It's as though you try-- try getting upset about the fact that two plus two equals four.

这就像你在尝试-,为二加二等于四而烦恼。

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Try feeling upset at your powerlessness to change the fact that two plus two equals four.

尝试为你无力,改变二加二等于四的事实而痛苦。

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The fisherman is also representative of the Irish peasantry to whom Yeats turns in scorn of the urban audience that he had tried to write for in the theater.

渔夫还代表了爱尔兰农民,他们是叶芝的新读众,叶芝此前鄙视并最终抛弃了,他曾尝试为之写作的城市读众。

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If you're trying to prevent a disease that only occurs at a rate of 20 per 100,000 people you have to give the vaccine to millions in order to see if the number goes down.

如果你尝试去防治一个,发病概率为十万分之二十人的疾病,那么就必须将疫苗分发给数百万人,以观察疫苗能否降低发病率

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