"I was appalled. When you read through it it's sort of like it's a memo out of some science fiction movie - I mean, the temperature of the air can't be any lower than thus and so, you can't do it for any few minutes.

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Thank you. I mean, I know I sort of said it to you, but you're right. It's logarithmic, right?

但你们是正确的，是对数级的,它有这样的效率是因为他每次能把问题减半？

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I mean, I think that everyone is, you know, sort of inspired by their own lives and experiences.

我觉得每个人都对自己的生活和经历有所感悟。

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I mean it wasn't terrible, it was sort of a precursor to what people are trying to do It flopped miserably, but I'm glad we did it.

其实也没那么糟糕，它就是个先兆，预示了现今人们,很悲惨它失败了，不过我很高兴我们做过。

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I don't mean no fish, but no sort of major schools of fish.

也不说一点儿都没,但是常见的那几种几乎没有

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Does this mean that the glycemic index is the healthiest -following this sort of a plan that would come from this -is that the healthiest way to eat?

这是否意味着血糖指数是最健康的指标,遵循基于此的饮食规划,是否就是最健康的饮食呢

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Common ownership, Aristotle argues, will mean a sort of common neglect.

亚里士多德论及，共同所有权等同于一种共同的疏漏。

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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 think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

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as far as it comes to, you know, where products come from, where products go and that sort of thing. But I mean,

我是说，像此类产品的发明，用途等等，我们从未想过。

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I mean this is perhaps a real sort of crossroad that I think a lot of people of faith feel they have to decide between which way they're going to go.

我是说，这或许真的是一个十字路口,许多有信仰的人感觉到,他们必须选择自己将会走哪一条路。

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In particular, do we have souls, and for this class when I talk about a soul, what I'm going to mean is sort of a bit of philosophical jargon.

特别是，我们有灵魂吗，在这节课上，当我说到灵魂，我的意思是带有一些术语味道的。

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