"Coping with these kind of impacts if you're dealing with significant affects on your agriculture or your water supplies, your infrastructure and also trying to develop new kinds of energy approaches, for example--that's going to take long term investment,"

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One, developing ways to understand how humans work better, how human physiology operates, and second, developing new approaches for replacing function in people when they're sick.

一,开发新方法更好的了解身体的运作,以及生理过程是怎样发生的,二,当人机体发生病变时,找到方法替代病变器官的功能

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In fact, I don't know if in the news the pioneer in this is a man named Judah Folkman, who is a surgeon who first speculated that this was important, and sadly he died on Monday, but had a dramatic impact on our understanding of how cancers develop in people and new approaches.

实际上,我不清楚这个新闻中提到的人,是不是犹太?福克曼,这个领域的先驱,他是个外科医生,最先提出了这个重要的理论,不过不幸的是他在本周一去世了,他让我们对癌症有了新认识,带给我们治疗癌症的新思路

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And the New Deal brought a fundamental new set of approaches, ideas, which we're still debating today; it's all over our political culture whether it's named or not.

而新政带来了一系列新的基本法则和理念,我们今天仍在辩论这些,无论是否承认,它都已渗透到我们的政治文化中

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