They said colonial policies violated important democratic ideas upon which the United States had been built.

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The idea of The Matrix is explicitly built upon Cartesian— Descartes' worries about an evil demon.

黑客帝国》的创意,完全基于笛卡尔的哲学,笛卡尔对于恶灵的忧虑

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And here it's all just tonic, just the basic primordial note upon which all these other tones are built.

在这里,最原始,最基本的音符,其它音符都基于基音而生

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So in many ways the premises, coupled with what we discussed in the first two lectures, build the foundation of that spiral, upon which everything else will be built.

从许多方面来看，这个前提，跟我们开头的两节课有关，会建立这个螺旋的基础，那其他一切就更容易建起来。

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I say this now with great confidence but ten years ago this story, which all the Greeks agreed too, agreed upon in every respect, that the temple of Apollo was built right on top of this, and underneath the floor of the temple was this little room where the gases came up, where the priestess sat, where all of this came up.

我现在敢在这里夸夸其谈,但是十年前,当时的希腊人,对这个传说都是深信不移的,阿波罗神庙正好建在它上面,神庙地板底下正是气体出现的小屋,女祭司也坐在这里,一切都发生于此

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