The Philippines this week said it is cutting rice imports because of high prices, even though the country lost more than a million tons of grain to typhoons this year.

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And even though it's an imitation, in many ways, the machine that we've developed can operate more than we can ourselves.

虽然只是一个仿制品，在很多年内，这个我们发明的机器能够,比我们做的更多。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It's better to have been born than never to-- even though that's followed by death-- than never to have been born at all.

出生还是好于永远不-,就算生后即是死-,还是好于永远都不出生。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选