I think we all know what it's like, actually, just watching yourself retaliate against somebody because you're angry and stop wondering why did I do that.

我想我们都深有体会，看着自己与某人作对，复仇,因为出于愤怒,而不再思考究竟是为了什么。

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which I think is a great lesson for people because we're all kind of weird, you know.

我认为这对人们来说是很好的一课，因为我们都很怪异。

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And so I joked, badly, I'll agree, at the end of last lecture, that we can just stop now, go straight to the final exam, because this is all you need to know.

所以我在上次演讲快结束时说了个拙劣的笑话，我会同意我们可以到此为止,直接进行期末考试，因为这些是你们需要知道的所有内容。

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But we do know from living cultures that people do engage in all kinds of ritual and symbolic actions because of genuine beliefs about the importance of those actions, because those rituals and symbols are extraordinarily meaningful to them.

但是我们可以在还活着的文化中知道些什么,它们蕴含在人们做的各种宗教仪式和有象征意义的行为中,因为人们诚恳地相信这些行为的重要性，因为这些仪式和象征对他们来说意义重大。

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The interest there was what do--can we learn about this because there were populations all over the world starving and scientists wanted to know what was happening physiologically to people and then what was the best way to re-feed them when you got--when they got access to food again?

我们关心的是从这项研究中能学到什么,世界上有很多人还在忍饥挨饿,科学家们想知道,饥饿对人们生理上的影响,以及当饥饿的人重新拥有足够食物的时候,最好的进食方法

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