I'm just going back and forth meaninglessly because I'm never going to get anyplace." Right?

我来回穿梭于文本中毫无意义,因为我永远不会真正地理解它，是吗？

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I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

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So that right now is going to seem a little bit like a sudden blast of notation, so let's just remind ourselves what we really care about is the idea, it's not the notation, and let's spend the next half hour applying these ideas to an application.

这些看起来就是一些,毫无意义的表达式是嘛,为了更好地学习这些概念,而不是这些表达式呢,接下来的半小时,我们来联系实际

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