And then,years ago when I first found out that I was HIV positive, my initial reason for doing glass was I wanted to leave one glass vase for my nephew and nieces to remember their uncle by.

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So I wrote my dissertation on Byron as a result of that-- nothing complicated, no deep reason for doing these things.

所以我论文写的就是关于拜伦的-,没有太多的考虑，就是因为我喜欢。

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At this point the study had been undertaken, there had been many, many more trials that had been done on cancer in men than there had been done on cancer in women, so there was a political reason for doing it as well.

研究就是基于这一点开始的,但在完成了的癌症实验中,关于男性的实验,要远多于关于女性的,这样做也是有政治因素的

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And, as I reminded you at the end of last day, the only reason I am doing this for you right now is I want to elucidate the principles.

就像我上次课的最后跟你们说过的那样，我现在给你们讲这些,仅仅是我想把原理阐释清楚。

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