And I want to describe both the syntax, what we're doing, and then the semantics of how do we use it and what does that mean.

现在我想解释一下语法，我们在做什么,还有我们使用时的符号,以及意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They sort of seemed--even though they didn't say anything, when we were talking to them, when they were sort of pleased, we took that to mean that that was what they were doing.

他们看上去似乎-尽管他们不会说任何事情，在我们向他们阐述的时候，当他们有点高兴的时候，我们将之理解为我们做的就是他们当时正在做的。

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I mean all those of you doing sports here-- and it's most of you in this room who are doing athletics, who go for a run, you rely on the law of gravity.

你们中喜欢运动的-,教室里多数人都做运动，跑步时需要万有引力定律。

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Again, we have to ask ourselves, we have to start thinking of the question about what does this mean for doing something about changing the world's diet, changing the nation's diet, changing the world's diet?

让我们来问问自己,考虑一下这个问题,改变一个国家的饮食文化,改变这个世界的饮食,这意味着什么

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And what I mean by this is the behaviorists were obsessed with the idea of doing science and they felt, largely in reaction to Freud, that claims about internal mental states like desires, wishes, goals, emotions and so on, are unscientific.

我的意思是,行为主义者沉迷于“科学“的理念之中,难以自拔,他们主要针对的是弗洛依德，他们认为那些所谓的内在心理状态,如欲望，意愿，目标，情感等等，都是不科学的。

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