"Even though,as Leo pointed out, it looks like a thriller, the glue that holds it together is varying levels of tenderness: for your wife,for your child, for your patient,for your friend."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Right, so the fundamental idea then, is, I want to glue together information, I want to take pieces of data that naturally belong together, glue them together, and attach some methods to it.

放在一起的数据拿出来，把它们放到一起，然后把一些方法附加上去,这些，你知道的，是很长的一个定义，让我们来看个例子吧。

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You've got to pretty much take that chalk, and make a slurry out of it, put water, and dry it back up, put in a mold, and then you can have the chalk again, but you can't just glue it back together.

你得尽可能地收集它的碎片，把它做成粉浆，加水然后风干，放进模具，然后你就能重新得到这支粉笔，但是你不能简单地把它粘起来。

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What's the metaphysical glue ? that glues these stages together?

把这阶段连接起来的,形而上粘质是什么呢？

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