They were looking for people who at the same time were representatives of a much bigger powerful tradition in the case of African-American music, but at the same time were really singular in their ability to express that tradition."

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It's often these very simple but powerful ideas that really take off.

这些简单的观点常常极为有力,能够产生深远的影响。

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The one who didn't really love you that much but then starts to show you that they love you, that person is a powerful influence on your behavior.

爱你不深的人,开始对你示爱，这样的人会强烈影响你的行为。

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And it's a topic I want to pick up on today, we're going to do for the next few lectures, and it's a topic I want to spend some time on because this idea of capturing data and methods, the term we're going to use for it, but data and functions that belong to that data, things that can be used to manipulate them, is a really powerful one.

我们会在今天讲这个话题,在后面几节课还会讲这个,这是个我愿意花点时间，在上面的话题因为这是个,捕获数据和方法的思想,我们用这个术语来形容它，数据中包括了数据和函数等，能用来操作它们的东西,真的是很强大的工具，我们真正要讲的东西是，我们要学会如何把信息。

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