I didn't quite know where we would be at any given time and I think we discovered this as we went along."
VOA: standard.2010.02.27
He brings it up as if we know that this is what he's been talking about all the time.
他提出这个好像我们知道一样,这是他一直在说的东西。
Now, I'd like to stress information technology because we are living in a time of rapid advance, as you know--I don't have to tell you this.
我想强调一下信息技术,因为我们身处一个飞速发展的时代,这你们都知道,我没必要再说一遍。
So, we can use Coulomb's force law to think and it does that, it tells us the force is a function of that distance. But what it does not tell us, which if we're trying to describe an atom we really want to know, is what happens to the distance as time passes?
来考虑这两个粒子之间的,它告诉我们力随距离的函数关系,但它不能告诉我们,而我们如果要描述,原子又非常想知道的是,距离随时间的变化时怎样的?
It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.
可能会有点让人不安,因为我们总想知道事物的定义,但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。
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