Maybe I made a big mistake by likening it to an organic chemistry course-- I don't mean to turn you off.

也许将其比作有机化学课,是个错误,我不是故意想倒你们胃口的

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He is warned by the gods through seers,and by men of wisdom saying, don't investigate this question too far; you might be making a mistake.

诸神通过先知向他发出警告,身边的智者也向他谏言,不要太过深究这个问题,否则将铸成大错

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Aristotle says this is a category mistake because poets don't imitate reality.

那么我说你从归类上就错了,因为诗人从不仿造现实。

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Then,the whole thing blows up and all the Bear Stearns stock is worth just about nothing; so, that's the kind of mistake you don't want to make.

现在金融危机让所有泡沫都破裂了,贝尔斯登的股份也成为了浮云;,总之，这种错误你们是不想重蹈覆辙的。

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It would either say something like -I'm not going to do the words that they would have come up with, but they would have said, yeah that's a good place to go or don't do that, that's a terrible mistake.

这答案不外乎两种,我不会说他们的那种语言,但是他们的意思大概是,那是个好去处,或者别做那事儿,那是个糟糕的错误

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