"Let's get a firm strategy, let's discuss that, let's poke and prod it and ensure that we have done it the right way, then implement tactics to achieve that strategy, and part of those tactics are deciding resources."

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People are just material objects, the sorts of things biologists poke and prod and study.

人只是个物质实体,一个生物学可以钻研的东西

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It's the sort of thing that we can put on a scale and prod with a stick and the biologists can study, presumably made up of various kinds of molecules, atoms and so forth. So we've got the body.

这是一种我们可以称重,可被棍打,可被生物学家研究的东西,想必是由不计其数的分子,原子等构成,于是我们有了肉体

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