It occurred to me here I could take that theme and turn it upside down against itself and it would work.
我突然发现,我能把这个主旋律颠倒过来并合在一起,还挺行得通的
in terms of how not to offend people and how to do it as ethically as possible
比如说怎样保证不侵犯人权,怎样让克隆在道德层面行得通,
What is happening is it turns out that putting the electrons in that lower energy state is stabilizing that molecule So that works.
发生的就是,把电子放在低能级状态,稳定了分子,因此这就行得通了。
I don't think they work, though I want to remark before I turn to them that in saying this I'm not necessarily criticizing Plato.
我不认为它们行得通,在此我得声明,说这些话时,我并不一定是在批判柏拉图
This all might seem very cruel but from a genetic standpoint it makes sense.
这可能看起来很残酷,但从基因角度行得通。
Suppose someone proposed that up in heaven and someone else might say, well that's not going to work so well, that's like a kibbutz--like one of the kibbutzim.
假设天堂里有人提议要求绝对均等,然后就有其他人会说,这提议不太可能行得通,比如集体农场的人就可能这么说。
There was one element in there.
行不行得通呢?
That's why all these arguments that we all get into these days about third-party political candidates what do we really need in our political culture, what would break apart the stagnation of our two-party system, if that's what people want or put more directly, will Michael Bloomberg run or not?
这就是我们今天为何面对这些争论,关于第三方党派的候选人,也就是我们的政治文化中究竟需要什么,什么能打破我们两党制停滞不前的现状呢,如果这是人民所愿,或者更直接的说,迈克尔.布隆伯格的做法行得通吗
The universal state will never allow for or does not allow for the kind of self-perfection that a small, self-governing polis will have.
万国之城将永不会允许,或说不会允许一种自我完善,那只有在小型,自治的城邦中才行得通。
And that basically make sense, right?
而且好像是行得通的,是吧?
But by and large, either method is really good,
但是总体上,其中一个总能行得通,
Well, I think actually, you probably could tell a story where that was true, especially if we throw in enough doses of memory loss.
我想,实际上,这也许行得通,尤其是在引入失记的条件下。
One of them might work even though the other ones don't work.
即使一些行不通,但其他的还有可能行得通
You might ask, "Well then how does that make sense?"
你们也许会问,那怎么行得通呢
You'll also see in a little while why both of these things would work this way, but it's not what I wanted. OK?
我应该把括弧,而不是方括号放在这里,你们稍后就会,明白为什么这两个符号在这里都是行得通的?
This actually works.
这个方法真的行得通。
g has to be less than r for this to make sense because if g--if it's growing faster than the rate of interest, then this infinite series will not converge and the value would be infinite.
必须小于r才行得通,因为如果g比利率涨的还快,那么这个无穷序列就不会收敛,价值就是无穷了
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