"If we can bring some smile on people's faces - even if we don't do it exactly like it was done before - if they like it, that makes us happy."

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So up to this point, before it was really established that yes, light is like a particle sometimes, there was this very strong distinction between what is light and what is matter.

所以关于这个观点，在它被真正确立之前，光有时候像粒子，在什么是光和什么是物质之间,有一个非常巨大的区别。

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So it's true. Before, it was like a butcher place where they cut the cows and pigs and everything.

是这样的。以前它像个杀牛、猪等动物的屠宰场。

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It was rather like parts of Africa before the 1880s.

有点像17世纪80年代前非洲的部分地区

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In fact, I dug up this from a few years ago it was actually pretty fortuitous like the day before one of CS50s lectures the original iPhone was cracked.

实际上，我在几年前,发现了这个，这是相当意外的,就像在一个CS50演讲前一天,我的iPhone，坏掉了。

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Well, I had been there before when I was younger and I didn't really like it.

好吧，我年轻的时候去过那里，但我不喜欢它。

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I would just get all my work done, like the weekend before it was due.

我会在周末之前把所有的工作都做完。

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So it really... it really changed what the area was like before.

所以它真的改变了这个地区从前的样子。

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