It's just not possible to solve some of these problems by hand and this isn't even a domain that's necessarily into the world of CS but speaks to you the applicability of it all.

手工处理这些问题似乎有些不大可能,但这还不是,计算机科学要解决的主要问题,我们的目的只是为了告诉你它的用途。

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The regime for him is not one branch of human activity among others it is the fundamental principle or ordering principle that makes all the others even possible.

对他而言,政体并非人类活动的一个分支,而是基本的原则,或说是指导原则,使所有其它学科化作可能,这就是为何。

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Imagine--this didn't, of course, actually happen, but imagine--the crucial point here is simply that we can imagine this story happening, not even that we think it's empirically possible, just it's conceivable, it's an imaginable story.

想象,当然,实际上并没发生,最关键的地方就是想象,故事因此而产生,别去想实际上是否可能发生,只需要一点想象,这是个虚构的故事

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