So it might be difficult to imagine anything twice as big.

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There are corollaries for those ideas in terms of the kinds of effects that literature has and what we might imagine ourselves to conclude from them.

这些想法,都带来一些必然的结果,有关文学的作用，以及我们想象自己能从中得出的结论。

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The word "carbohydrate," as you might imagine, if you ever thought to break it down means the combination of carbon and water.

碳水化合物这个词,如你所想,如果你把它进行拆分的话,就是碳和水的结合物

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Without Elvis, we can only imagine things might be a little different because he did have the unique sound.

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Maybe a typical farm, you might imagine, is maybe ten acres; that is a very small farm.

一个典型的农场,你可以想象得到的,也许就十亩地,已经相当小了

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You might imagine that people smile when they're happy.

你可能想象人们在高兴的时候微笑。

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Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

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t see in the way you and I might imagine seeing.

迈克看世界的方式与我们想象的完全不同，Mike，doesn’

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It's a supposition that whatever the object of theory might be, - theory itself must-- owing to whatever intellectual constraints one can imagine-- be of such and such a form.

不管理论是关于什么事物的，它自己都只能-,由于人们思想的局限性-,以猜想的形式存在。

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So you can imagine, we actually don't need to think of it as a piece of gold foil it might be easier to think of it as a couple of layers of atoms.

所以可以想象,我们不用把它当成一片金箔,只要把它当成是几层原子,所以他所作的就是。

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And just to look ahead a little bit, you could easily imagine that I might want to not just put a statement in there, what the specs are, I might want to put some constraints. Some specific things to check for, to make sure that you're calling the code right.

这不仅是抽象的概念还有规范的概念，我们再往前看看,你可以简单的想象得到，我不仅仅是想在这里加一个声明,这些规范说明中我还想加一些约束，我们要注意一些特殊的事情。

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How many people can we imagine who might fit that description?

这个描写能够让你脑中想起多少的人？

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Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

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So, imagine the pig has a heavy collar and to reward the pig for walking forward you might remove the heavy collar.

所以，想象这头猪带着很重的项圈,作为对这头猪向前走的奖励,你可以把项圈拿掉。

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Another side effect if you take too much lithium is death, so that's no good to have in sodas either, and it might not have been as big a deal back in the 1920's, but you can imagine with supersizing today, this might be a bigger problem.

另一个副作用是因为摄入锂过量而死，这更说明在汽水里放这种东西是不好的，这在二十世纪二十年代可能没什么大问题，但你可以想象在如今这个什么都超标的时代，这也许会出更大的问题。

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And you could imagine why that might be true.

你可以思考为什么这样说对呢。

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You can imagine how some of those details might go, and then some of the questions get rather tricky.

我们可以想象种种细节，有些问题会变得很难办。

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