and you may have said to yourself as you were reading it, "Well, gee, isn't this sort of digressive?

读的时候你可能会对自己说，天，难道这不是离题了吗？

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It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

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All right, so that was a quick aside on thinking about how these properties can, in fact, relate to something in our body.

好的，我们刚才小小地离题了一下,来想了想我们讲过的性质，在实际上，是如何跟我们身体的某些机能联系起来的。

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It's a little bit of a digression, but one of the things that I've witnessed over the past twenty years is that the leakage of the -the leakage from the system in terms of the returns that go to the owners of capital -leakage has increased enormously.

讲一点稍稍离题的内容,我发现,过去的二十年中,这种损耗,这种减损资本所有者收益所得的,系统性损耗,有相当巨大的增长

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