Anything is unnarratable if we don't have a sense of a beginning, a middle, and an end to bring to bear on it.

如果我们不仔细都不会注意到它有开头，经过和结果。

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The relationship between the beginning and the end that I have been intimating, in other words, is a relation of death.

我之前一直在提示的,开始和结束的关系，还句话说，是死亡的关系。

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Now the problem with that is a problem I mentioned before, that most human genes are not just a straight sequence from beginning to end of the protein that you're interested in.

但现在的问题,是我之前提到过的,大多数人类基因不是一个连续的序列,从头到尾都对应你想要的蛋白质

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Make move is what we call to change the price of a stock, at the beginning or end of a day if you will.

我们调用Make，move按照你的意愿早一天，开始或者结束的时候去改变一个股票的价格。

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We assume that unless we're dealing with Scheherazade, it has to have an end, but at the same time we might well ask ourselves, why does it have a middle? What is the function of the middle with respect to a beginning and an end?

而且我们认定一定会有结尾，除非讲故事的是那个，《天方夜谭》中的苏丹新娘，但是我们要问自己了，为什么故事一定要有经过呢？,故事的经过对于开头结尾来说起到什么作用呢？

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