"But they illustrate what I want to try to do in this book,which is to just broaden the thinking to get away from this traditional sort of radio search.

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And the sort of tragedy then is sort of personal tragedy where is taking away from his parents.

悲剧是一种个人的,从父母那里的来的悲剧。

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If they're sort of doing their job right, they're actually diversifying away all the risk and relying on the law of large numbers.

如果他们工作得当，那么他们其实是规避了所有的风险,而且依赖大数定理。

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And what you do is you sort of you turn away.

你所做的是把头转开。

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Were you and the president and everybody else in the White House worked as hard as you could, but things just sort of run away, took on a life of its own.

你们在白宫,尽心尽力地工作,但形势却还是会失控吗，就像是自己有想法似的。

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As I say, red tends to be chosen, but then if you get lab experiments showing that that particular color of gas blue is somehow or another sort of more invasive of your consciousness than red is, then you move away from the arbitrariness of the choice of red as a color.

所以人们就倾向于选择红灯，但是如果你想用实验证明,比如说烟蓝色或者,其他任何另一种颜色比红色更加醒目，那么你就忽视了颜色选择上的任意性。

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He feels like it sort of takes away his innocence as a filmmaker. Then also in the reading, he mentioned that he doesn't believe that you need any film knowledge to make a good movie. You just need an understanding of culture and of human history.

他感觉那样有如夺走了他作为一个电影制作者,所需要的纯真，在阅读材料中，他还提到,他认为要拍一部出色的电影,其实并不需要任何专业知识,只要对文化和人类历史有所了解就可以。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

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These are sort of flailing away at different ideas but another way of doing--an older way is proposed by Plato, who viewed laughter as a form of bonding against a common enemy.

我现在说的都是各种猜想,但从另一个角度看，一个古老的角度,这是由柏拉图提出的，他认为笑是一种巩固感情的形式,对抗共同的敌人。

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