Whether Gadamer means that when he speaks of gap or whether he simply means an abyss or a distance to be crossed I couldn't say.

当葛达玛说到间隙时是那个意思,还是仅仅认为它是需要跨越的一个深渊或者一段距离,我不能确定。

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Well, this is the question raised by the skeptic about skepticism or about theory and it's one that we're going to take rather seriously, but we're going to come back to it because there are ways, it seems to me, of keeping this question at arm's length.

这是由对怀疑论或理论持怀疑态度的人提出来的问题,也是我们要认真探讨的，但是我们还会回来继续讨论，因为对我而言，我们需要和这个问题保持一定距离。

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But if we could statistically control for every other variable, all I'd need to do is measure the distance from your door to everybody else's door on campus and I could chart out who's going to fall in love with whom on the Yale campus.

如果我们能精确地控制其他可变因素，那么只需要测测距离,你宿舍门到其他宿舍门的距离,我就能够计算出,校园里谁爱上了谁。

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So this is not even thinking about the other electron shielding, just if we think of the fact, all we need to think about is that the effect of going to a further away n n as we go down the table.

到现在我们甚至还没有考虑,其它电子的屏蔽效果，即使我们要考虑这个因素，我们需要考虑也就是,沿着周期表的某一列往下走，距离会逐渐变远,将起最重要的作用，actually，dominates,这一结果所产生的影响。

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