Descartes, when he was alive, was reasonable enough concluding that physical objects cannot do certain things.

笛卡尔生前非常理性地总结到,生理客体并不具备完成某些动作的能力

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because they want their kids to do certain things.

因为他们想让孩子做点特定的事情。

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And Descartes said, "Boy, these machines respond in certain ways to certain actions so machines can do certain things," and in fact, he says, "Our bodies work that way too.

因此笛卡尔说,"天呐,这些机器可以对特定的动作,做出特定的反应,原来机器也是可以完成某些动作的",实际上,他说道,"我们的身体也是这样运作的

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So even if immortality would be bad, there would be certain things you could do that could end it.

所以即使不朽是不好的，你也能做某些事去结束它。

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And that's when, if you had everybody come to the theater for a big debate about something, you could still have people voting on certain things that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't rule themselves completely by themselves.

所以当时，如果所有人到剧院,对某一问题进行辩论，还是可以通过投票,决定某些事情，虽然他们无法进行完全的民主统治。

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We could begin to put a certain amount of pressure on the text and possibly, as I say, - begin to do things with it which are kind of a five-finger exercise-- -- we'll be doing a lot more of that sort of thing--but which might work.

开始时我们应该对文本抱有一定的怀疑,就像我说的，用一种五指练习法来做-,以后我们会大量涉及到这种练习。

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There's only one occasion where it helps to go to three dimensions because there are certain things you can do in 3D you cannot do in less than 3D.

只有一种情况下进入三维是有意义的,因为有些事情你能在三维空间内完成,但低于三维就做不到了

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But within all of these groups is an attempted try to get down something that's so fundamental, and we just have to safeguard. I'm thinking broadly in terms of social justice criteria, others may say human dignity. There're certain things we do to safeguard others' human dignity.

但在所有这些群体中都有一种努力,在尝试着记录下最根本的东西，而我们要做的就是维护，我在广泛思考着,社会正义的标准，其他人可能会说是人的尊严，有些事情,我们会做从而维护他人的尊严。

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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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Or more carefully, it's way about talking about certain things the body can do when it's functioning properly, when it's well tuned, as we might put it.

或者更谨慎地说是谈论,身体在机能正常的时候,可以进行的一些活动，我们也可以说在音调调好的时候。

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And so probably does each animal feel about the particular things it tends to do in the presence of certain objects.

所以，可能每种动物,倾向于做特定的事情,在某物面前。

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