Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.

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Right, so the fundamental idea then, is, I want to glue together information, I want to take pieces of data that naturally belong together, glue them together, and attach some methods to it.

放在一起的数据拿出来，把它们放到一起，然后把一些方法附加上去,这些，你知道的，是很长的一个定义，让我们来看个例子吧。

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Most of what we do these days, our methods, our theories, our ideas, are shaped, to some extent, by Piaget's influence.

我们这些天所讲的,各种方法,理论,思想,它们的形成都在一定程度上,受到了皮亚杰的影响

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They are simply analytical tools. They're not inherently biased. They can be applied fairly to the text, and they're extraordinarily useful. It's just that some of the earlier practitioners of these methods did have ideological axes to grind, and we need to be aware of that.

所以它们只是分析工具，本身并不带有偏见,它们是十分有用的，完全可以运用于文本,但一些早期实施者并没有将其,融会贯通，我们必须意识到这一点。

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And it's a topic I want to pick up on today, we're going to do for the next few lectures, and it's a topic I want to spend some time on because this idea of capturing data and methods, the term we're going to use for it, but data and functions that belong to that data, things that can be used to manipulate them, is a really powerful one.

我们会在今天讲这个话题,在后面几节课还会讲这个,这是个我愿意花点时间，在上面的话题因为这是个,捕获数据和方法的思想,我们用这个术语来形容它，数据中包括了数据和函数等，能用来操作它们的东西,真的是很强大的工具，我们真正要讲的东西是，我们要学会如何把信息。

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Can we see-- use some of the same methods that we've looked at for the physical world to look at the social world?

我们能够应用,看待物质世界的一些方式,来看待社会世界吗

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So let's look at what some of the traditional methods for classes are in Python.

很奇怪的有下划线的东西,因此让我们来看看Python中,一些传统的方法吧。

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