They actually can be used in a court of law as a stage toward arriving at a verdict.

这些词在法庭上,指审判前的一个程序。

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This is useful especially when we get to details like forensics and looking at data on a hard drive, - 'cause if you don't know how much store-- how many bits are composing your file, you're never gonna recover that data or be able to access what you're looking for.

这是很有用的，尤其是在法庭上,查看硬盘驱动器里的数据时，如果你连-,文件有多少比特都不知道，你如何去恢复数据,获取你想要的信息呢。

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Here, Socrates makes the case against himself, you might say he makes the case against himself better than his accusers in the courtroom did so.

则苏格拉底做出了自抗的论点，你甚至会说他自抗的论点,强过法庭上指控者的论点。

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Because Roman legal structures-- and they even said this in Roman laws-- if you're a judge and you have a rich man and a poor man in your court, of course you're going to decide for the rich man, because the poor man has incentive to cheat; he's poor. But the rich man already has money, he doesn't have any incentive to cheat.

因为罗马法律结构。。。,甚至罗马法律中就这么写着。。。,如果你是法官，一个穷人和一个富人，同时出现在法庭上，你当然会偏袒富人，因为穷人有欺骗的动机，贫穷;,而富人已经很有钱了，没有动机再去行骗。

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