A ball of clay is placed on a flat wheel device that turns quickly.

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now I'm really fantastic at drawing this mechanical device, but you can imagine that dropping a weight can cause a paddle wheel to turn.

机械装置的时候,我真的很着迷，你可以想象,当重物掉落的时候会带动桨轮旋转。

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Well, it turns out that people tended to give an answer close to the number that came up on the wheel of fortune.

结果表明人们会更愿意给出,接近他们刚才转出数字的答案

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I mean, maybe if you accidentally like leaned into the steering wheel or something like that.

如果是你不小心靠着方向盘，导致活门开启,或是发生之类的情况。

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Every time I drive the steering wheel of my car, I rub off some items. But that's OK, it's still the very same physical object.

每次我使用方向盘时，都会摩擦掉一些微粒，但没关系，它还是原来那个物体。

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Now you could do a similar sort of thing, but instead of having a candle, you have a paddle wheel, and the paddle wheel is spun by a weight that's dropping from here to here.

那接下来可以做一件类似的事，但不再是蜡烛，我们将它换成一个桨轮，桨轮末端拴一个重物,它可以从这掉落到这。

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You're not going to start for the rest of your life if you ever need to solve a problem with a computer from scratch, odds are you're going to reach for some off the shelf packages or libraries or tools that other people wrote so that people like us don't have to reinvent the wheel again and again.

如果你想用Scratch来解决问题,却使用其他人写的程序,或者利用现成的资料或工具,这样以来,我们的确可以避免做重复性的工作,但却永远学不会编程。

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It's a cliche--People say, let's not reinvent the wheel here, so let's go back to that.

人们会说这是陈词滥调了，咱们别在这白费口舌了，咱们还得从头说起。

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I'd like to talk about the invention of the wheel-- that's the most famous invention, right?

我想说说,车轮这一项发明-,那是最著名的发明，对吗？

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Now, they perfectly well knew that the wheel of fortune was random.

其实人们都很清楚,幸运转轮是随机过程

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Suppose standing on the bridge next to the fat man, I didn't have to push him, suppose he was standing over a trap door that I could open by turning a steering wheel like that.

假设我站在桥上，胖子就在我旁边，我不用去推他，假设他踩在一扇活板门上方,而活板门可以通过转动方向盘来开启。

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The classic experiment that demonstrated anchoring was Kahneman and Tversky--I'm writing K&T -in a wheel of fortune experiment, which they did in 1974.

一个阐述锚定效应的经典实验是,卡尼曼和特维斯基...我用K&T来表示,他们在1974年做了幸运轮盘实验

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