Over the last couple of years, we can get reasonable measurements of human activities that were hidden from us.

在过去的几年中，人类能够通过适当的方式去测量人的大脑,在以前我们根本无法做到。

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Well, if I go through that, the wavelength of such a photon is going to be so big that I am back to measuring the dimension of the human hair with the yardstick.

好的，如果我做完了这个，那个一光子的的波长将成为,我将回头测量的,用一个尺度测量出人头发的尺寸。

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She measured the distance between the bones in the finger, because when we get older, the space becomes smaller-- they become tighter.

她测量指骨间的距离，人越老，骨骼间空隙变得越小-,指骨变得更紧。

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Studies have been done in the city of New York where you can-- if you live in Manhattan you can actually get a very nice metric of how far apart people live from each other in city blocks. Right?

纽约市就做过这类实验,在纽约-,如果你生活在曼哈顿,你能准确地测量,生活不同街道的人相互距离多远？

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