And that in some sense they would live on in this society which they had improved and made a better thing.

因而在某种程度上来说他们在今天依然活着,活在这个他们所改良的美好世界

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They have nothing to do with the cells that are on your head, the hairs on your head. These are modified neurons.

这些细胞与脑细胞,不是一回事，与头发也没有任何关系而是改良后的神经元。

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They knew the techniques for grafting and improving, and domesticating species of grapes and olives particularly.

他们知道植物嫁接和改良的工艺,和为葡萄和橄榄培育良种的技术

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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates and can use the product of, so much is his property " He by his labor encloses it from the commons."

一个人能耕耘，播种，改良，栽培多少土地,和能用多少土地的产品，这多少土地就是他的财产,这就像是他用他的劳动从公地圈来的那样“

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I think I mentioned to you that the Greeks improved upon it and made it a true alphabet by taking some signs that they didn't need for their own language by turning them into vowel sounds.

我想我向你们提到过希腊人将这种字母表改良,并使其成为真正的字母表,他们把一些并不需要的符号,变成元音使用

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