"The circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school.

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And there is no way to explain this phenomenon if you model the water as having particle-like properties.

没有其他的方法来解释这种现象,除非认为,水是一种具有粒子的性质。

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If a food never had trans fat in it but it gets labeled as having no trans fat, does that increase your perception of how good that food is for you?

如果某种食品不含反式脂肪酸,而上面也贴着不含反式脂肪酸的标签,它是否会提高你对这个食品的认知呢

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Because as you'll soon find, when you're writing programs 0 that aren't just four lines long but are 40 or 400 which very quickly becomes easy, you'll find that even you the next morning have no idea what this code does for whatever reason, and just having some English comments is a huge boon to comprehension for yourself and others.

你们自己写程序时就会发现,用40行甚至400行代码来代替繁杂拥挤的4行代码0,将会让事情简化许多，你会发现，即使由于某些原因,你不知道如何写代码，先写些注释，于人于己，都是好事,易于理解嘛。

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There was a famous case in the 1970s or '80s, there was a family called Trognon, and a trognon is a cigarette butt, and when they tried to adopt a baby, it would be called, let's say Jean-Philippe Trognon, they said,"oh,no, that baby would be damaged by having such a last name; you don't have the right to adopt this baby."

在上世纪七八十年代有一个出名的案例中,这家人姓特鲁侬,意思是香烟屁股,他们想要领养一个婴儿,取名为,简·菲利佩·特鲁侬,法国人说,不不,取这样一个名字有损于这个婴儿,你们不能领养这个孩子

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