It can mean losing emotional control.

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It appears that people, at some level, think that they can exert willpower over it and control it.

这说明在某种程度上,人们认为他们可以通过意志力控制结果

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But a mountain of those who think that they are in power, who think that they are in control, who think that there's no need that they have it, they can't satisfy by spending money.

但实际上，这座山暗指那些自恃有权之人，那些自恃能够控制局面的人,认为金钱，可以买到一切。

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What it refers to is people get the impression that they can control randomness.

准神奇式思考指的是人们认为,自己可以做出某些行动,解除原来的决定或改变历史

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Food's more important than family, right. What about how fast the sort of lack of control and now I can kind of binge on it or eat it, I don't even have to wait until the family sits down to eat.

食物比家庭更重要,理解成自身对食物的迅速失控怎么样,暗示自己,现在我可以大快朵颐一番,我甚至都不用等家人全坐下就开始猛吃

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I want you to look at this picture, read the little bit about gene - control of gene expression - that's in the book, know that it's a big topic, that we're not going to talk about it except we're going to talk about some examples where control of gene expression can be exploited in order to treat diseases, for example. So I'll see you on Thursday.

所以我希望你能看一下这张图,读一些,教材里基因调控的章节,这是个很大的话题,我们不会进一步深入去探讨,但一些基因调控,用以治疗疾病的例子,我们可能还会在之后的课程中讲到,那我们周四见了

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So it turns out with printf you can actually control those kinds of aesthetics as well.

所以我们用printf也可以控制这种,打印结果的美观性。

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