One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument.

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These joint undertakings are like,well, you might think of them analogous to playing chamber music with a string quartet.

这种共同行为，就像是用弦乐四重奏演奏室内乐。

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Well, I started playing baseball when I was really young, about...I think I was seven years old,

我很小的时候就开始打棒球了，大概是……，我想那时候我大概七岁吧，

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Let me stop playing this since it will just go on ad nauseam as well. So what does this actually mean for you?

我们继续讲课,对你们来说这究竟意味着什么？

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Well, the piano is just playing chords, playing them in octave successions, and we'll talk about that a little bit more too.

钢琴弹奏了和弦,一连串的八度音,这部分,我们今后也会继续探讨

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So how do chess-playing programs, and particularly the best chess-playing programs, how do they work? Well, they play chess the same way you do.

那么,下棋程序,特别是最好的下棋程序,是如何工作的呢,它们的下棋方式同你们如出一辙

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This is incredibly important because,when you look at this number that we started out with,saying the benchmark was 9.9 but net of fees the managers on average only lost thirty basis points--or .3% -you'd say,well that's a game I don't mind playing.

这极其重要,因为当你看这些数字时,刚才说过基准收益是9.9%,但是主动管理型基金经理人的平均净利润,只落后了30个基点或者说0.3%,你可能会说这个游戏,我不介意玩一玩

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Well, we play with it, the way I've been playing with it and compare the results to some set of real data.

好啦，我们来试一下我们之前也做过,就是用我们得到的结果和实际结果相对比。

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I don't know how well you can make it out but there's a little broom guy there with glasses, playing air guitar with his broom, and I guess this is meant to capture the spirit of the contributors.

我不知道你们能理解到什么程度,但是在那儿有一个戴着眼镜的男孩，用他的扫帚在弹着吉他，我猜这个的寓意是指要抓住那些发起人的精神内涵。

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That's how chess-playing programs work as well.

下棋程序也是这样工作的

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Well,a fan of the claim that we all die alone might come back and say, Well,in the case of the string quartet, although it's true that I am playing with others, somebody could take my part.

一个相信人是孤独而死的人也许会说，在弦乐四重奏的例子中，虽然我确实是在和其他人一起演奏，有人是可以替代我的。

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Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.

在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。

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