In other words, you are an end and not a means to me unless in fact I'm exploiting you and instrumentalizing you. Right?

换言之，对我来说，你不是手段，而是目的,除非我在剥削你，或把你工具化，是吧？

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that your form of transportation is causing each day on your way to school or work.

不用担心你每天上学或上班的路上，你使用的交通工具会引起污染。

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So, no one was really excited to build the product or build the tool and they weren't consumers of the tool.

所以，没人真正为造出产品或工具而感到兴奋,因为他们不是这个工具的消费者。

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I want the function, which is a little tool, a line of code I can include in my own programs and generally those tools live in sections two or three of the manual.

我想要一个函数，那是一个小工具，在我程序中可以包含的一行代码,通常这些工具在手册的第二节,或第三节。

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And it turns out-- a little teaser for our security discussion as time passes that a lot of the times when software is compromised and you download Photoshop like a cracked version of Photoshop or something like that.

这对于即将讨论的安全性问题来说,只是一个小插曲，随着科技的发展,很多时候，如果工具受损,你会下载到一个版本不全的,或其他类似的东西。

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You could use a calculator or any number of other tools but we'll get there.

我们可以用一个计算器或,其他的运算工具来计算那个结果。

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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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