We can have a civil science, because politics is a matter of human making, of human doing, of human goings on.

我们能够拥有民间科学，因为政治关系到人类的产生，人类的生存，人类的延续。

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It's a new form of monetary policya new invention which we've been doing only for a matter of months now.

这是一种新的货币政策形式一个新的发明,我们刚刚采用了几个月而已。

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What about that case? Well, I think if we were doing a matter of physics, as it posed to--sort of psychology Psychologically we understand why, losing weight might make a real difference about how you feel about yourself.

这个案例该如何解释，我认为，如果我们在研究物理问题，或者，心理学问题,从心理学的角度我们明白原因，减肥可以让你,自己感觉非常不一样。

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