Patrons pay him and give him drinks to go up and repeat their words to other people in the bar.

当某人给钱,让他传话。

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And it gives us an very nice analogy of somebody whose, you know, a coat which could outlast the owner, but it isn't immortal.

他给了我们一个很好的类比,某人的大衣可以,比它的主人存在更久，但它并不是不朽的。

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Well, you don't literally mean that somebody rewarded you, like gave you pellets and stuff.

你并不是想说某人会奖励你，比如给你点吃的或是奖品。

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Everyone knows from calculus that if you're trying to find a function about which you know only the derivative, you can always add a constant to one person's answer without changing anything.

学过微积分的人都知道,如果你想根据已知的导数,求出其原函数,你总是可以给某人的答案,随便加一个常数,且不影响结果

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It's as though somebody brought in this delicious meal to a hungry-- before a hungry person--allowed them to see what it looked like, allowed them to smell the delicious aromas, perhaps gave them just one little tiny forkful to see just how beautifully delicious the food was.

就好像某人带了这顿美味的饭菜给一个饿的-,放在一个饥饿的人面前，允许他们看到饭菜，允许他们闻到这美味的香味，也许给了他们一小勺让他们看看,这食物有多美味。

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