It turns out not, but it does evince the fact that we have some basic syntax like mathematics and equal signs and whatnot with which we can now start using for more useful purposes.

结果不是那样的，但这的确有个事实,我们有些基本的运算法则和等号和,其他一些东西，用来为我们一些,更多有用的目的而服务的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So before we proceed, I need to ask you to set aside for the purposes of this course, some of the more common myths about the Bible.

所以在外面真正开始上课前,我希望大家为了学好这门，课能把原先那些刻板印象放到一边。

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Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

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