You want to think about how much attention and primacy we should give to an author's statements about what her work mean--as readers.

对于作者对自己作品的阐述和说明,我们怎么注意,怎么给予优先度也不为过。

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And the second thing we're going to need, is we're going to need a way to give instructions to the computer to manipulate that data.

我们需要的第二件事情是，我们需要一种,能给予计算机指令,以操作数据的方式。

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That there is nothing impossible that we can provide some new hope for these patients.

没有什么是不可能的,我们能够给予这些病新的希望。

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Twice he issues instructions and as we've seen they're contradictory.

两次，上帝给予指令，就像我们看到的矛盾之处一样。

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Because I think positing a soul doesn't really yet offer us the explanation.

因为我认为灵魂存在的假设并未,给予我们一个合理的解释

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We give a rapid turnaround.

我们给予了一次迅速的转变。

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He says in The Bridge, he asks the bridge to lend a myth to God, and he suggests that this is something that every age must do because our names for God are always metaphors, poems, something imagined, acts of speech.

他在《桥》中写道，他请求大桥借与上帝一个神话，他暗示到有些事情是每个年纪的人都必须做的,因为我们给予上帝的名总是一些隐喻啊诗歌啊，一些想象的事物，对言辞的表演。

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Music gets us to do particular kinds of things, gets us to feel particular kinds of ways, and I think these two pieces by the same composer get-- cause--us to feel very, very different, cause a different mood, a different psychological state, to come over us.

音乐赋予我们别样的行为方式,让我们通过别样的途径来感受,还有我觉得这两首来自同一个作者的乐曲,给予我们截然不同的感受,两种截然不同的情绪,两种截然不同的精神状态,笼罩着我们

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Well it has to do with our distance from food, our psychological and physical distance from food, and the fact that we don't appreciate it as much as we do because it's everywhere all the time and we've been trained to eat outside of the normal meal times.

我想这和我们与食物之间的距离有关,包括与食物之间的心理距离和身体上距离,事实上,我们没有给予食物足够的重视,因为食物随手可得,无处不在,而且我们都习惯在非用餐时间吃东西

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I'm going to start with those and then I'll turn, eventually, to another set of possible things that might need explaining, which we might think of as extraordinary, supernatural things.

我将从这里开始,然后转而讨论,另一些,需要给予解释的现象,那些我们可能视之为异乎寻常的,超自然现象

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But whether or not he does address them-- we're not doing Plato any honor, we're not doing him any service, if we limit ourselves to simply trying to grasp, here's what Plato thought.

但是不论他有没有涉及那些,如果我们束缚自己,而只是去,揣测柏拉图的真实想法的话,我们不仅对柏拉图的不尊重,也没有给予他任何帮助

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