And small is not derogatory here, by the way, it just says the size of things you're going to be able to do.

顺便一提，这里的小并不是贬义，只是代表你有能力做的,事儿的规模而已。

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What must this experiment have the potential to do, to be a valid scientific experiment?

实验必须有做什么的能力,才能被称为一个有效的科学实验呢？

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The Newscorp's rising stock price was a sign that Rupert Murdoch had some idea how to make money and The Wall Street Journal was not doing as well, so it got gobbled up.

新闻集团,全球最大的媒体集团之一默多克家族控制其30%的股份,是鲁珀特·默多克有能力赚钱的标志,而《华尔街日报》做得不好,所以它被吞并了

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What turns out to be the practical fact is that he who has the power and the will to do what he wants will be able to do so, and he who has not will be forced to suffer whatever the powerful impose on him.

事实上只有有能力及意愿,去做某事的人,才能最终做成某事,而没有能力或意愿的人则会因之,而遭受不幸

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And those are two things that you'd like to do with every looping construct you write: you'd like to be able to assure yourself that they will always terminate, and then the second thing you'd like to do, is to assure yourself that it does give you back a reasonable answer.

就是现在我有了能去检查程序,是不是做了正确的操作的能力：,这就是你们在写每个循环程序的时候,都要注意的两个事情：,第一件事情是要确保程序可以终结，第二件你要做的事情,就是要确保程序返回了正确的答案。

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