Even so experimental a book as John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is totally absorbed in the problem of what it would mean to write about yourself.

就算约翰，巴思的《迷失在游乐场》这么一部实验小说,也在专注一个问题,就是写关于自己经历的意义。

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And indeed, as it happens, in our department this very semester there is such a class devoted, all semester, to the topic of consciousness.

当然,这也的确是如此,我们系在这一学期,就有这么一个班,花了整整一个学期,来讨论意识问题

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I never met anybody who seemed more like an author than this person, and yet he's raising the question whether there is any such thing, or in any case, the question how difficult it is to decide what it is if there is.

我从来没有遇见过比他看起来更像作家的人，现在他提出了一个问题，问无论如何，如果有这么个东西的话那么决定它是什么有多难。

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And it's called divide and conquer for the obvious reason. I'm going to divide it up into sub-problems with the hope that those sub-problems get easier. It's going to be easier to conquer if you like, and then I'm going to merge them back. Now, in the binary search case, in some sense, this is a little bit trivial.

因此被称为分治的原因就这么简单,将一个问题分解成一些子问题,并希望这些子问题解决起来比较方便,正如你希望的，求解的过程也会变得简单,下面就是把结果合并起来,现在，在二分搜索的例子里,从某些方面来说，这有点微不足道。

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But finally, Reiner says, well, thank you for visiting us, it's all very wonderful, but you know our audience would really like to know; it seems like a simple question but it's awfully hard to understand, but how can a great, big, enormous, heavy thing like this airplane get off the ground?

但最后 雷纳说到,谢谢你的来访,太棒了,但你知道吗,我们的观众非常想知道,这问题貌似简单,但却很难让人明白,问题是,像这么一个巨大且沉重的飞机,是如何飞起来的呢

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The trouble is,imagine the case where we've got one guy who's got all of Napoleon's personality in Michigan, one guy who's got all of Napoleon's personality in New York.

但问题是，试想有这么一个人,出现在密西根，拥有拿破仑完整人格，另一个在纽约，也拥有拿破仑的完整人格。

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