"President Obama has been all over the Middle East, he's been in Turkey, he's been in Saudi Arabia, he's been in Cairo, and giving major speeches, and he has not spoken to or with the Israeli people or really sort of extended his hand as a partner in this entire process,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Now, language is not the only thing in culture or nature that has this sort of combinatorial system.

语言并不是在文化或自然中,唯一拥有这种组合系统的事物

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That one's not so obvious. So let's think about this for a second. To sort a list in linear time, would say, I have to look at each element in the list at most a constant number of times.

所以让我们来思考一会,要在线性时间能排序，列表里每个元素最多被使用常数次,不一定是一次，对吧。

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He was good in this sort of technique and that he was not so good.

他很擅长这方面的技巧,那方面却不太擅长。

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But maybe I've just been flatfooted here in thinking that " this is some sort of claim about not being with others, " or things I do by myself.

但也许我考虑这个问题的时候太直接了,认为这说法只是关于“不和他人一起，或者“我自己一人的经历。

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We're not going to talk about those details in the class here; I want you to sort of understand this really at the level that I've described it here.

我们课上不会讨论太多细节,我希望你们的理解能达到,我所讲到的水平就好

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I don't know whether it's easier for gentlemen or not because our voices are sort of in the bass, but maybe this is payback time since ladies are always singing the melody.

我不知道是否男人更容易唱出低声部，因为我们的嗓音本来就低，不过这也可能是女士们报复的时间到了，她们总是得唱旋律。

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So, so far what we've done is we've looked at this sort of classic, I admit not the most exciting game in the world, but classic application of Game Theory to imperfect competition.

到现在为止我们只学了经典案例,我承认这不是什么有趣的博弈,只是博弈论在不完全竞争市场的应用

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B In fact, it's even a question whether A is A, but it's certainly not B, right? This much we know. In the grammatical sense there is no sort of mystification about the metaphor.

实际上，人们甚至对A是不是A都有疑问，但肯定不是，是吧，我们都知道这点，而从语法的角度来看,并没有像暗喻一样的神秘化。

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