They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.

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The New Yorker article talks about the price of his condo-- or co-op--in New York, which set some record, and so they tell things like that.

纽约客》那篇文章谈到他有一套公寓,位于纽约,价格创了新高,还谈了其他类似的内容

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They take those descriptions and the scientist that is known and they try to design new things, and so if you look at a dictionary it has words like this, that you're designing things or another way to say that is that you're trying to apply science, you're looking at applications.

他们利用已知的,科学原理和描述,来设计新东西,因此,如果你查字典时看到这样的词条,设计产品或者换句话说,试图应用科学原理,那么你看的这个词就是应用

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