"You want to hold a review and you want to exclude the one big issue which should be right at the heart of that review."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

I will only do them on one condition, and that is I want to be able to teach you what the assumptions are that underlie the points in the derivation.

只在一个情况下我才会做，那就是要能够教会你们,假设是,构成了推导的基础。

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Or to put the point more properly, ? which one do you want to not to be tortured?

或者说的更明白一点，你们希望保护哪个？

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The obvious one is to divide it in half, but there may be cases where there are different divisions you want to have take place.

之前的例子是为成两份，但是也有可能在一些情况之下,要分成不同的份数。

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You don't want to be someone like the fisherman who boasts about one big fish that he caught because it's not-- we're talking about livelihoods.

不要像那个渔夫一样,因为曾经捕过一条大鱼而到处炫耀-,我们说的是维持生计的问题。

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Now, why the Fat Lady? It's this mythical, incredibly humanly embodied-- whenever you see a fat lady in a novel, one of the first things you want to ask is: why does that person need to be excessively embodied?

现在，为什么是胖太太，这是个神话，人们呈现了，无论你什么时候看到一个胖太太,在小说里，你首先会想问：,为什么那个人需要被这样过多的描写呢？

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Now,if you're like Parfit,and for that matter like me then you're going to say,of course I care I want it to be the case that I'm one of the people who's already had the operation I don't want to be one of the people who hasn't yet had the operation ? You might say,how can that make any sense?

如果你们同意帕非特，那也会同意我,你就会说，我当然在意,我希望的情况是,我是已经做完手术的人,我不想是那种,还没做手术的人,你可能会说，这有什么意义？

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