And what I was trying to persuade her in this meeting was to take me on as one of her students, to let--to be my adviser.

谈话中，我试图说服她,接受我这个学生，做我的指导老师。

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If I want to persuade you that I love you, would never leave you, you can trust me with everything, it may be a superb tactic for me to believe it.

如果我想让你相信我爱你，永远都不离开你，你什么都可以信任我，或许最好的策略便是我自己对此深信不疑。

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If you have a laptop and I persuade you to open it up for me and I take the pliers and kind of snip just about anywhere, your laptop will be destroyed but the brain is actually more resilient.

假如你有台笔记本,我成功地说服了你,让你把笔记本拆开,然后我拿钳子,在笔记本里乱剪一通,那你的笔记本肯定就坏掉了,但是大脑具有更好的弹性

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So not only is there evolutionary pressure for me to lie to you, for me to persuade you for instance, that if we're going to have a conflict- if you are threatening me " "Don't threaten me, I am not the sort of man you could screw around with" But there's evolutionary pressure for you to look and say, "No. You are the sort of man you could screw around with.

因此，不仅存在着要求我对你说谎,的进化压力，比如，如果我们之间存有冲突-,当你威胁我时,我会说“别吓唬我，我可不是吃素“,而且还存在着要求你辨别谎言的进化压力,你会说，“不，你肯定不行。

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