"Suddenly this spy scandal happens, and everything is resolved in a day."

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

Now from the adult point of view, this is culinary because we know that we're in the world of folklore and that in folklore everything happens three times.

现在从成人角度来看，这是烹饪小说，因为我们知道,自己在一个民间传说的世界,而且在一个民间传说中事不过三。

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You know, it's just a nice place and everything happens here.

这真是个好地方，什么都会发生。

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We know that two vehicles are going to come along and not help Tony and that the third vehicle will, because everything, as I say, happens in threes in folklore.

我们知道有两辆车会过来,而且它不会帮助托尼，那么第三辆就一定会，因为，我说过，在民间传说中什么都只发生三次。

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When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

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So two different kinds of strategies, one is a surgical strategy, actually removing tissue and we talked a little bit about the engineering of surgical instruments and things like - so there's a lot of Biomedical Engineering that goes into everything that happens in the operating room.

这是两种不同的方法,其中之一是通过手术,切除组织,之前我们讲过的手术器械工程学,这涉及到许多生物医学工程学原理,它已经渗透到手术室内的方方面面

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The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

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