Today,Mars continues to excite -- not as the object of science fiction but of scientific study.

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So, for example, if you were trying to study the motion of some object, here is one example.

举个例子,如果你想研究某个物体的运动,这里有个例子

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So, what we are going to study now is a non-living object and we're going to pick it to be a mathematical point.

我们现在所要研究的的,是一个没有生命的物体,我们要把它看作一个数学上的点

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You need to pin down an object of study, a first principle from which other principles can emerge, and part of the process is to say, "Hey, it's not literature we're talking about.

首要原则是，需要锁定要谈论，即学习的目标，可是，谁知道什么是文学。

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One final example of an object permanence study.

最后举一个关于客体永存性研究的例子

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This is what he says in this first passage. He says: If we study speech from several viewpoints simultaneously, the object of linguistics appears to us as a confused mass of heterogeneous and unrelated things.

这也是他在第一篇文章里说的话：,我们同时从几个角度读这篇文章，这时语言学乱的像一锅粥,没有系统毫无关联性。

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