This is a story about mechanical objects, -- some of which move-- -- remember those smiling houses in the background-- and some of which are stationary, but they're all mechanical objects.

这是一个关于会活动的，机械的故事-,还记得那些作为背景微笑的房子吗？,它们不会动但也都是机械的东西。

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If things weren't working out by the end of the summer he'd fire me and I go back to Stanford for business school, that didn't sound too terrible.

如果不行的话，他就炒了我呗,我还可以会斯坦福继续读商科，这听起来又不会太差。

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Nicola, if you didn't think you'd get caught, would you pay your taxes?

妮可拉，假如不会被抓，你还会缴税吗？

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I am anticipating here, and we'll come back to this in other contexts: but it doesn't say "one thing led to another"; in my facetious reference to history as I have already given it to you.

讲得有点超前了，我们以后谈论别的文章时还会再说：,但是结构主义不会说，一件事引起了另一件事;,就像我之前开玩笑般地指到历史一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Your banker understands that your business can't pay the money back and that the bank has a reputation in the community of helping business people, so they won't ask for the money even though it's a short-term loan that they made to you.

他会理解,你的公司可能无法还钱,在业界里银行向来,有帮助企业家的美名,所以他们不会要求你还钱,即使他们借给你的是短期贷款

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so it's gonna have some impact on the third quarter, maybe leaking in the fourth quarter Um, I haven't looked at the details I might not get a check If I did, I just take in the check and go and say that we wouldn't spend it.

该计划产生的影响,或许要到第三季度才有所体现，当然也许会蔓延至第四季度,嗯，我个人也还没有深入研究,我也许并会去领支票,即使领了，我也只是拿到后离开,然后说，我们才不会花掉呢。

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I want you to look at this picture, read the little bit about gene - control of gene expression - that's in the book, know that it's a big topic, that we're not going to talk about it except we're going to talk about some examples where control of gene expression can be exploited in order to treat diseases, for example. So I'll see you on Thursday.

所以我希望你能看一下这张图,读一些,教材里基因调控的章节,这是个很大的话题,我们不会进一步深入去探讨,但一些基因调控,用以治疗疾病的例子,我们可能还会在之后的课程中讲到,那我们周四见了

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