And as long as that smaller computation reduces to another smaller computation, eventually I ought to get to the place where I'm down in that base case.

如果我不属于基础事件,那么我需要把它简化为更简单的计算，随着计算的不断简化,最终我能分解成基础事件。

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I want now to carry that forward into something a little bit more focused on the portfolio problem.

现在从这个基础上拓展一下,更侧重于投资组合方面的问题。

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So in many ways the premises, coupled with what we discussed in the first two lectures, build the foundation of that spiral, upon which everything else will be built.

从许多方面来看，这个前提，跟我们开头的两节课有关，会建立这个螺旋的基础，那其他一切就更容易建起来。

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As I already suggested, and I would insist upon this again, that the consolidation of territorial rulers had already given the basis to an expanding, more formalized state structure, even in England.

我提到过 现在再强调一遍,国家的兼并,君权的加强为一个日益庞大,更有章法的现代国家的形成奠定了基础,在英格兰也是如此

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More speculatively, there has been some fairly recent work studying the genetic basis of language, looking at the genes that are directly responsible for the capacity to learn and use language.

更具体的来说,一些最新的语言遗传基础研究,探查了直接影响语言学习,及使用能力的基因

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No no question that I can think of can be more fundamental. And this finally raises the question of the relation between the best regime or the good regime and what we could say are actually existing regimes regimes that we are all familiar with.

不，我想不出其它,更基础的问题,而这将带出一个问题,即最优政体与好政体之间的关系,及我们实际上可说的是，现存的政体,那个我们都非常熟悉的政体。

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For your readings, you are reading one of the meditations in my book, where I talk about it a little bit more in length, and I also gave the philosophical foundation, " because in many ways this goes against "counting and thinking" that has been so dominant in our 20th and 21st century thinking about morality.

你们正在读我书中的冥想部分，书中有更详细的阐述，也给出了哲学基础，因为在很多方面有别于“数数和思考“,那种方法在20和21世纪处于统治地位,思考道德。

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