Then that's not a very long distance, probably easily walkable in a few minutes; but that child can't be walking through everybody's yard.

他们离得不远,可能走几分钟就到了,但是你的孩子却不能直接走到他的朋友家

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And my guess is that if we did taste tests with all you guys of all the popular bottled waters, very few people could probably pick out Evian from any other water.

我猜如果让你们,喝各种瓶装水让你们去分辨,没有几个人能尝出依云和其它水的区别

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I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

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It used to be the case that-- well I mean my guess is that very few of you probably go through a day without interacting with a water bottle at some point.

以前的情况是,我是说,我猜在座很少有人经历过,一整天不带水壶的日子

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