Here is a part of "The Mighty Task is Done": At last the mighty task is done;

VOA: special.2009.03.04

So part of the goal here is, this should not be a grueling, exhausting kind of task, it's really something that should be helping you learn the material.

所以部分目标在于，这不应该是一个累赘，不是那种沉重的任务，它应该能帮助你,学习材料。

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Another sort of task, which is a task that's been done hundreds, perhaps thousands of times, is known as "the false-belief task" and here's the idea.

另一种任务,已经被应用过了成百上千次,叫做"错误信念任务",任务是这样的

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It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;

VOA: special.2011.02.07

My task in the class here isn't to do an in depth analysis of the biology or things--or scientific methods, or any things like that that would make you have to retain a lot of detail in the readings.

我在课上的任务不是用生物学的方法,或者类似的科学方法进行深入的分析,我的目的并非让你们记住这些细节

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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

You might have predicted it the other way around, the twenty dollars, "wow, well, twenty dollars, I must have enjoyed it because I got twenty dollars," but in fact, the logic here is the people with twenty dollars when asked, "What do you think of the task?" could say, "It was boring. I did it for twenty dollars."

你们猜想的结果可能跟这个相反，拿20美元的那组，”20美元，我当然很喜欢这个任务“,”因为我拿到20美元“,但事实是，当问及20美元那一组时，”你喜欢这个任务吗/“,”很无聊，我为了20美元才做的“

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