But when you asked them why they didn't try it the answers tended to be "I would look silly."

但当你问他们为什么不尝试时,他们的答案往往是“这样做会很傻”

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Often, for a particular state change, it is easy to calculate two of these, but not the third.

对于一些特定的状态变化，它们中的两个很好计算，但是第三个往往不容易计算。

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In our art music, our symphonies, concertos genres of this sort, the performer is actually much less important.

在我们的高雅音乐,像我们的交响乐,协奏曲,这类的体裁中,演奏者往往不那么重要

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But when you pass a parameter say, a list, you didn't think that you were not only passing the list, you were also passing the functions that operate on the list. In fact you are.

你不会认为你输入的不仅仅是链表，你还传递了处理链表的函数,实际上你正是这么做的,这往往不重要。

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Absolute or apodictic law, by contrast, is an unconditional statement of a prohibition or a command. It tends to be general and somewhat undifferentiated. You shall not murder. You shall love the lord your God.

具体了，相反的，绝对法是对一种禁令或命令的,无条件陈述，它往往都很笼统甚至是,无差别的，你不应该杀人，你应该爱你的主你的上帝。

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So, the bid price is the--they don't do it in terms of price, they do it in terms of discount so the bid discount rate- there would be two numbers for each.

出价,往往不以报价的形式出现,而是以折扣率,出价的折扣率,有两个相关的数字

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People who have seen this before, done it before, lived through it, and now you can count on them not to run away, better than you can on a fresh recruit who's never done this before.

有经验,杀过人,亲历过战争的人,往往可以靠得住,不至于临阵脱逃,从没参加过战斗的新兵蛋子一般都不怎么靠谱

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Where--One of the big findings from social psychology, and we'll devote almost an entire lecture to this, that people have strong views about other races that they don't know about and that they don't know how to control their actions.

我们将来几乎会用一堂课的时间，来介绍一个社会心理学的重大发现，人们对其他的民族有极深的成见,但这些成见往往是他们自己无法察觉的,也是他们不知道该如何去控制的。

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and I don't know how to phrase this in a politically correct way, but the parents of ugly kids are likely to themselves be ugly people and maybe what they're finding is just ugly people are more violent than good-looking people.

我不知道怎么用不会引起政治争论的话来说，但丑小孩的父母往往也长得丑,也许这个研究的发现是长得丑的人,比长得好看的人更粗暴。

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At the end of the semester he then asked people to rate different pictures as to how much they liked them, and even though people had no memory of seeing one or--versus the other they tend to like the pictures more that they had seen before.

在学期末，他叫同学,按自己喜欢程度，给这些图片评分，虽然同学都不记得哪些看过，哪些没看过,但他们喜欢的图片往往是,他们之前看过的图片。

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