But he says understanding these differences can help discover how some complex processes on our own planet really work.

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I'm perfectly capable of understanding the past in and for itself without any contribution of my own, without, in short, any preconceptions."

我十分能够理解过去,而没有自己的贡献，简单点说就是没有任何的先入之见“

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He published a treatise that he had written earlier on grammar, inventing his own system for the understanding and the learning of the Latin language.

发表了一篇他之前写的关于语法的论文，在这篇论文中他创建了自己的一套理解和学习,拉丁文的体系。

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So we now have a real usable criterion to help guide our understanding of whether things happen by themselves of their own accord or not.

所以我们找到了一个非常有用的判据,这个判据能够指导我们,弄明白变化是否,是自发发生的。

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So clear sense of your core competence and direction, intelligence and understanding not only with your own people are doing but what's going on in academia and in startups, and then the willingness to take some risk that would be what I'd say.

清楚的了解你的核心竞争力和方向，才干，并了解你的伙伴在做什么,以及学术环境和创业环境的发展，然后要有冒险的动力,这就是我要讲的。

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Another tangible way of understanding who won the battle and who didn't, is we winners, because we own the field, we can pick up the casualties, take care of those who can be saved, bury the ones who have been killed; we don't have to ask anybody's permission.

还有一种显而易见的,判断谁胜谁败的方法,我们占领了战场,我们就是胜方,我们清理战场,处置死伤者,医治能救活的人,埋葬阵亡的人,我们不需要征求任何人的同意

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