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"In 7th century Arabia, he even did some things that were relatively progressive for 7th century women in Arabia, but certainly not for 21st century women in Britain or anywhere else.
VOA: standard.2010.07.19
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But some things seem to be indisputable, for instance, if I say we won the battle I can prove that to you most of the time.
但有些东西还是没有争议的,举个例子,我说我们赢得了战役,我可以证明这一点
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But there are also some pretty significant things going on
但同时也有很多很重要的事情在发生，
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I think there's at least and I'm not going into any specifics but I think there's at least some chance of a modest acceleration But,because of the way General Odierno sees things going, that remains to be seen,".
VOA: standard.2009.07.29
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So, if you were to lose half your brain, the other half can actually do a lot but some things are more prevalent and more powerful in one part of the brain than the other And I want to show you a brief film clip from "Scientific American" that illustrates the differences between the hemispheres, but before doing that,I want to provide some introductory facts.
如果你失去了半个大脑,另外一半其实也可以完成很多功能,但是某些功能是存在单侧化优势的,我给你们播放一段短片,来自于《科学美国人》,它解释了大脑两半球的功能差异,但在此之前,我想先做一些介绍
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"There are a host of efficiencies that can be gained without increasing our personnel or our budget, but rather decreasing the amount of money that's spent on unnecessary things in order to fund some of the critical initiatives that we've all talked about,"
VOA: standard.2009.04.20
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Certainly this is like mid 1990s, we did have the web and the internet but things were slow and it just wasn't really conducive to actually finding things quickly unless you really gave some thought to the problem.
它有些像20世纪90年代，当然我们有网络和互联网,但是做事情很慢,在快速查找东西的时候不是很有效,除非我们对这个问题真正深入思考了。
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That doesn't negate that, but in some ways it brings up the specialness of other things and makes us feel a part of that.
上面的观点不否认这一点，同时却注意到了其他事物的特别之处,并让我们感受到是其中的一部分。
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Unless there are some tax effects, which might matter-- and taxes always complicate things--but disregarding tax effects, it doesn't matter which you do.
除非这里涉及到税负,可能会影响...,税款常常把问题变得复杂,但不考虑税的话,什么时候买是没区别的
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So, these are an important way of documenting, but there're some things excluded.
因此，文件制作是种很重要的方式，但是有些东西也被排除在外了。
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Now potentially to some of the other things as well, but these are the main ones, and these links have been very clearly established.
同时它还和其他一些疾病存在潜在关系,但主要就是这几项,并且关系十分明确
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So some of the strategies that we didn't throw away were best responses to things, but the things they were best responses to have now been thrown away.
这些没有被剔除的策略,是某种情况下的最佳对策,但剩余的最佳对策现在可能也要被剔除
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Some things can't be seen but can be sensed some other way.
有些东西看不见,但是可以通过其他方式感知到。
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But we all know that the reason things come to a halt when you push them is, there eventually is some friction or drag or something bringing them to rest.
但我们都知道,推完之后会停下来的原因就是,最后还是有某种摩擦或者拖拽,或者别的什么使得物体静止下来
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I'm going to ask you to indulge me while I go back to the beginning and talk about some things that you know but I'm going to go through this pretty rapidly.
我请求你们容许我,从一些,你们已经懂得的知识讲起,不过我只会很快的串讲一下
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I've assigned a full two weeks to the Republic, which would be four lectures, but because I wanted to do some other things with the course as well, I had to cut the Republic by one lecture, and now I'm paying for that today.
我会分配两周的时间来消化《理想国》,等同四堂讲课，但因为我想要,加一些内容到课堂来，所以我必需砍掉《理想国》的一堂课，今天我要付出代价。
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You are going to read, you are going to learn, you are going to come to lecture, I am going to hit some high points, things that I find particularly interesting, but it is not sort of well, he said we are going to read this but then he didn't talk about it in class.
你们要去阅读，要学学习，你们要来上课，我要讲些重点，是一些我发现的很有趣的事情，但是不是你们想的那种，他叫我们读这里,但是他并没有在课堂上谈论这。
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But there's some things that that person can do and they're definitely useful in an organization and can do a lot of stuff.
这样的人才,知道该怎么做事,这公司来说十分重要，他们很能干。
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And we've been working with them What I will call it prototype; we have not yet done a complete project. But I wanted to show you some pieces of this on slides. So one of the things we've done is create a searchable archive.
我们与他们合作,我称之为草案，我们还没有完成一个完整的项目,但我想给你们看一些幻灯片,我们做的其中一件事就是,创建一个可搜索的档案馆。
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Now we can think about the fourth period, and the fourth period is where we start to run into some exceptions, so this is where things get a teeny bit more complicated, but you just need to remember the exceptions and then you should be OK, no matter what you're asked to write.
现在我们可以考虑第四周期，而且在第四周期,我们会遇上一些特例，所以事情有,一点复杂，但是你只需要记住,这些特例然后就没有问题了，无论你被要求写什么。
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It's kind of gruesome but we know there are some things you don't need your brain for.
听上去有些可怕,但却使我们知道了,有些活动是无需大脑参与的
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The notion of conservation is that there's ways to transform things such that some aspects of them change but others remain the same.
守恒是指物体某方面的特征,不会因为其他方面特征的改变,而有所改变
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So the exceptions are useful when you want to have the ability to say, I expect in general this kind of behavior, but I do know there are some other things that might happen and here's what I'd like to do in each one of those cases. But I do want to make sure that I don't let a value that I'm not expecting pass through.
所以当你希望有能力说,我希望一般是这样的行为,异常是很有用的,但是我明白还有一些其它的情况可能发生,我希望对每一种情况都这么做,但是我跟希望能保证,没有让一个预期之外的情况漏过去。
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And so, I get some power. I get the ability to store arbitrary things, but what just happened to my complexity?
但是复杂度变了,找到第k个元素,要花多少时间呢？
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MATLAB But there's some things that are a real pain to do in MATLAB.
但是用,做东西是很痛苦的。
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Finally though, the point that he makes is a terrific one, all of these things seem natural to us but the reason why they seem natural is not because they are in some sense necessary or logical truths.
最后，尽管，他表达得很好，所有这些对我们而言很自然,但我们认为他们自然的原因,并非他们是必要的,或是逻辑真理。
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Now that's pretty far fetched and not many people would say that a pop tart should be a controlled substance and regulated by government, but there are some very interesting chemical properties associated with foods like this that trigger things going on in the brain that affect us in a very big way.
这多少有点牵强,而且也没有很多人会认为,这种果酱馅饼应归为管制品,并受到政府监管,但有趣的是这种食品,确实有一些特别的化学特性,它会作用于大脑并会对我们产生大的影响
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But here, if I decide I'm going to store things not in x and y, but with some other set of names, for example, I've gotta go back into these pieces of code that use the points, and change them. So I've lost modularity.
除了要改下借口,但是这里，如果我决定，我不把值放在x和y中，而是和其他一些变量名进行绑定,例如这样的话,我就得回到使用这个点的代码，那儿去做更改了。
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And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.
没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。
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Now we never completed the study so we never wrote it up, but we did find some interesting preliminary things.
现在研究尚未完成,所以还没写成论文,但我们发现了一些有趣的原始发现
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