The passage is: Here there is a sort of question, call it historical, of which we are only glimpsing today, the conception, the formation, the gestation, the labor.

这段话是：,有一个问题吧，关于历史的，我们今天只粗略地看看，它的设想，构成，妊娠，和分娩。

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Notice if I'm going to have two different sub problems I need to have two base cases here to catch this. And if I only had one it would error out. And as a consequence, I can go off and ask about rabbits. Let's see.

我需要定义两个基础事件来处理它,如果我只有一个基础事件的话就会产生错误,这样我就能够知道到底有多少只兔子了,让我们来看看，在第12个月末,没那么简单，在第二年末兔子就很多了。

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